ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,831, issued on April 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Synchronization signal/broadcast signal block broadcast method and apparatus" was invented by Yinghao Jin (Boulogne Billancourt, France), Jinping Hao (Shanghai) and Wei Tan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synchronization signal/broadcast signal block broadcast method and an apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: A first access network device RAN 1 determines to request a second access network device RAN 2 to perform resource allocation for a terminal; and the RAN 1 sends, to the RAN 2, a first message used to indicate the RAN 2...