ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,336, issued on July 28, was assigned to Bloomsbury Design Labs LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Transmission power control for beam failure recovery requests" was invented by Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.) and Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may transmit indications of target received powers for a random access procedure and a beam failure recovery procedure. A wireless device may transmit a random access preamble and a beam failure r...