ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,821, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Enhanced beam management based on beam prediction" was invented by Qiaoyu Li (Beijing), Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described to support requesting a change to one or more beam management parameters based on a prediction of a change of a beam ranking at a user equipment (UE). The UE may transmit, to a base station, a medium access control-control element (MAC-CE) that includes a beam failure recovery (BFR) message. The BFR message may includ...