US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 16 for "Beam failure recovery with a relay device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,646, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam failure recovery with a relay device" was invented by Shanyu Zhou (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE may be configured to detect an occurrence of a beam failure condition for a failed downlink transmission received from a network entity using a first beam. The UE may transmit, over a sidelink to a second UE, a BFR in response to detecting the beam failure condition. The UE may receive, over the sidelink from the second UE or from the network entity, a beam switching instruction to switch f...