ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,439, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Synchronization signal transmission techniques" was invented by Dae Won Lee (Portland, Ore.), Seunghee Han (San Jose, Calif.), Gregory V. Morozov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Alexei Davydov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) and Hong He (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for synchronizing communications between a User Equipment (UE) and Base Station (BS) using a synchronization signal structure. The synchronization signal structure can include a sequence of Synchronization Signals (SS) including repetitions of a synchronization signal burst...