ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,866, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Sidelink assisted indication of beam failure" was invented by Hemant Saggar (San Diego), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, 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 at a user equipment (UE) are described. A UE may identify a beam failure for at least one communication beam at the UE. The UE may determine the reasoning for the beam failure and may include the reasoning in a beam failure recovery (BFR) request. The UE may identify a sidelink relay UE to communicate via sidelink ch...