ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,488, issued on June 30, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Mechanism for beam failure detection" was invented by Samuli Heikki Turtinen (Oulu, Finland), Timo Koskela (Oulu, Finland), Jussi-Pekka Koskinen (Oulu, Finland) and Chunli Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to beam failure detection. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, after a serving cell is activated from a deactivated state, a terminal device monitors a beam failure on a serving beam of the serving cell. If a beam failure instance indication is received within a short period after t...