ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,335, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Synchronization signal block reception in wireless communications" was invented by Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) monitors for a synchronization signal block (SSB) to synchronize with a cell of a network. The UE monito...