ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,812, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Enhanced signaling for beam failure detection reference signal with UE predicted beam failure" 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: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for enhanced signaling related to beam failure prediction. A user equipment (UE) predicts a beam failure condition prior to a number of beam failure instances within a time period reaching a configured threshold number of be...