ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,656, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Rate matching indication method and apparatus, and device and storage medium" was invented by Yang Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rate matching indication method is provided. The method includes: a base station sends a synchronization signal block SSB 0 and a synchronization signal block SSB 1 in a time slot, where the SSB 0 carries a first indication, and the first indication indicates, to a terminal, the use of a rate matching manner that deducts time-frequency resources occupied by the SSB 1."

The patent was filed on July 25...