ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,441, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for performing contention-based and non-contention-based beam failure recovery in a wireless communication system" was invented by Sangbum Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soenghun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaehyuk Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungri Jin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Donggun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Alexander Sayenko (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging a 5G communication system, which is provided to support a h...