ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,202, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Switching reference signals for beam or link failure detection" was invented by Hamed Pezeshki (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine to switch from monitoring for a first reference signal to monitoring for a second reference signal, and monitor for the second reference signal. Numerous other aspects are provided."

The patent was filed on June 24, 2024, under Applicatio...