ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,097, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam failure recovery in sidelink communications" was invented by Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.), Hua Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Yan Zhou (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided. A method of wireless communication performed by a sidelink user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a first candidate relay UE, a plurality of beam failure detection reference signals (BFD RSs) associated with a first plurality of beams, detecting, based on at least one BFD RS of...