ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,842, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam failure avoidance based on detected interference" was invented by Shanyu Zhou (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Juan Montojo (San Diego) and Yan Zhou (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE may receive a BFD-RS and calculate, based on the BFD-RS, one or more of a value of an RSSI or at least one of a value of an SNR or a value of an RSRP, such that the UE may report a BFI based on the calculated values. The UE may initiate at least one of a total BFI timer or a consecutive BFI timer whe...