ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,991, issued on May 19, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for beam failure detection and recovery" was invented by Nazli Khan Beigi (Longueuil, Canada), Jonghyun Park (Syosset, N.Y.), Moon Il Lee (Melville, N.Y.) and Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for beam failure detection and recovery (BFR) are described. Methods include a wireless transmit/receive unit: receiving configuration information including BFR parameter sets with respective candidate beam reference signals (RSs), measurement criteria and interference criteria; detecting beam...