ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,290, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for interference-based beam failure detection" was invented by Shanyu Zhou (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Aleksandar Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.) and Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for interference-aware beam failure detection procedures. One or more beam failure parameters may be adjusted based on a likelihood of temporary interference being present for a communications beam. The beam failure parameters ma...