ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,202, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Synchronization signal block reception in wireless communications" was invented by Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Wenshu Zhang (San Diego), Qiming Li (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego) and Weidong Yang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is configured to monitor synchronization signal blocks (SSB) transmitted by a base station of a network. The UE receives a configuration comprising a first indica...