ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,432, issued on July 14, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Beam failure recovery procedure in carrier aggregation" was invented by Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.) and Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications may comprise communications between a base station and a wireless device. A wireless device may perform a recovery procedure associated with a secondary cell and/or an access procedure associated with the secondary cell. Based on a deactivation condition associa...