ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,260, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatus for beam failure recovery for sidelink unicast communications" was invented by Jie Hu (Changping District, China), Jing Han (Chaoyang District, China), Haiming Wang (Xicheng District, China), Lianhai Wu (Chaoyang, China), Jie Shi (Haidian District, China) and Ran Yue (Haidian District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for beam failure recovery for sidelink unicast communications. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a first user...