US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Jan. 20 for "Beam failure detection and recovery for deactivated secondary cell group (SCG)" (Swedish, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,625, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Beam failure detection and recovery for deactivated secondary cell group (SCG)" was invented by Pontus Wallentin (Linkoping, Sweden), Zhenhua Zou (Solna, Sweden) and Stefan Wager (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods for a user equipment (UE) configured to communicate with a radio access network (RAN) via a master cell group (MCG) and a secondary cell group (SCG). Such methods include, while the SCG is deactivated, performing beam failure detection (BFD) for at least one cell in the SCG, according to a fir...