ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,356, issued on April 14, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, radio communication method, and base station for beam failure recovery (BFR)" was invented by Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that determines beam failure recovery (BFR) to be applied to a cell from physical random access channel (PRACH)-based BFR and medium access control control element (MAC CE)-based BFR on the basis of a radio resource control (RRC) parameter regarding MAC CE-based BFR; and a transmitting section that, ...