ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,250, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Nested cell structure" was invented by Robert Gad (Cracow, Poland) and Dariusz Palka (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods in a communication system are disclosed. A cell defining Synchronization Signal Block is transmitted (400) on a first frequency location inside a given frequency bandwidth and a second Synchronization Signal Block (402) on a second frequency location inside a second bandwidth inside the given frequency bandwidth. A main cell is provided (404) on the given frequency bandwidth by utilising the...