ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,949, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for recovering beam failure in a wireless communications system" was invented by Dalin Zhu (Richardson, Texas) and Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for beam failure recovery in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) is includes receiving, in a radio resource control (RRC) signaling, a pool of one or more reference signal (RS) resource indexes for a beam failure detection RS (BFD-RS) configuration; receiving a medium access control ...