ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,016, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for beam failure recovery in multi-path communications" was invented by Shanyu Zhou (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with a network entity using one or more directional beams. The UE may detect a beam failure associated with at least one of the one or more directional beams, and the UE may calculate a duration between a detected beam failure and a subsequent random access occas...