ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,723, issued on May 20, was assigned to FutureWei Technologies Inc. (Plano, Texas).
"System and method for device-to-device synchronization" was invented by Philippe Sartori (Plainfield, Ill.), Deping Liu (Schaumburg, Ill.), Brian Classon (Palatine, China) and Qiang Li (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for including a base station that configures a first user equipment (UE) that is in a radio resource control connected state with the base station. The UE is configured to be a synchronization source and transmit a first device-to-device synchronization signal (D2DSS) by using a synchronization resource that co...