ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,510, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Relations between beam group beam failure recovery and cell level beam failure recovery" was invented by Yan Zhou (San Diego), Tianyang Bai (Mountain View, Calif.), Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.) and Wooseok Nam (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In operation, the UE in the cell (SpCell/SCell) may be configured to operate with beam group specific BFRs, cell-level BFRs, or combinations of them under a beam failure configuration that is deter...