ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,488, issued on June 23, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, radio communication method, base station, and system for beam failure detection" was invented by Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Weiqi Sun (Beijing), Jing Wang (Beijing) and Lan Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives a medium access control-control element (MAC CE) indicating two active transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for one control resource set, and a control section that, when an information element of a radio link...