US Patent Issued to Google on July 28 for "Beam failure reporting" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. RE50,974, issued on July 28, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Beam failure reporting" was invented by Shiang-Rung Ye (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes reporting beam failure by a user equipment (110) to a base station (121) in a radio access network (140), in which the user equipment (110) receives a first uplink grant (502) and initiates a beam recovery procedure (504). Based on the beam recovery procedure determining that a beam has failed, the user equipment (110) transmits, using the first uplink grant, a first Media Access Control Protocol Data Unit including a first MAC...