ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,810, issued on April 14, was assigned to FutureWei Technologies Inc. (Addison, Texas).

"System and method for communications beam recovery" was invented by Pengfei Xia (San Diego) and Bin Liu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an access node includes generating a configuration message including information specifying a set of reference signals of a first reference signal type and a set of reference signals of a second reference signal type used to identify a new beam, and information specifying random access channel resources allocated for transmitting preamble sequences, wherein each random access chan...