ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,806, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Non anchor carrier synchronization signal" was invented by Zhi Yan (Xicheng District, China), Haipeng Lei (Haidian District, China), Yingying Li (Haidian District, China) and Haiming Wang (Xicheng District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for transmitting synchronization signal in non-anchor carrier are disclosed. A method comprises transmitting a carrier configuration on an anchor carrier; and transmitting a synchronization signal in a non-anchor carrier based on the carrier configuration."

The patent was filed on Sept. 20, 2019, ...