ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,123, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Generation node b (GNB) configured for slot-less operation at frequencies above a 52.6 GHz carrier frequency" was invented by Gang Xiong (Beaverton, Ore.), Avik Sengupta (San Jose, Calif.), Alexei Davydov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Dae Won Lee (Portland, Ore.), Yingyang Li (Beijing) and Salvatore Talarico (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A generation node B (gNB) for a fifth-generation (5G) new radio (NR) or a sixth-generation (6G) network is configured for slot-less operation at frequencies above a 52.6 GHz carrier frequency. The gNB may gen...