ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,059, issued on Sept. 8.

"Beam failure recovery via relay node" was invented by Shanyu Zhou (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a beam failure recovery (BFR) message regarding a failed link, wherein the failed link is one of an indirect link with a network node via a relay node or a direct link with the network node, wherein the BFR message is transmitted on one of the indirect link or the direct link that is not the failed link....