ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,620, issued on April 22, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Cell search method, forward link frame transmission method, apparatus using the same and forward link frame structure" was invented by Il Gyu Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeong Geun Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Young Jo Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Kapseok Chang (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyo Seok Yi (Daejeon, South Korea), Young Hoon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seung Chan Bang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of searching a cell in a mobile station of a communication system in which a plural...