ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,205, issued on May 27, was assigned to Alif Semiconductor Singapore Private Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method and systems for performing 3GPP NB-IOT NSSS frame number and CFO detection in low SNR conditions" was invented by Sondur Lakshmipathi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for determining the system frame number (SFN) of a radio frame includes receiving a synchronization signal sequence transmitted by a cell in a synchronization signal subframe, determining a physical cell identity (PCID) of the cell based on the synchronization signal sequence, equalizing the synchronization signal sequence u...