ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,480, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for initial access of a user equipment" was invented by Yuantao Zhang (Dongcheng District, China), Hongmei Liu (Changping District, China), Zhi Yan (Xicheng District, China) and Haiming Wang (Xicheng District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and an apparatus for initial access of a user equipment (UE). According to an embodiment of the present application, a method can include: a method may include: detecting, at a first UE, a first synchronization signal block (SSB); determining ...