ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,991, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Pi/2-BPSK for initial access" was invented by Srinivasan Selvaganapathy (Bangalore, India) and Karri Markus Ranta-Aho (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for pi/2 BPSK initial access. In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method that includes receiving, at a user equipment, information indicating network support of an initial network access based on a pi/2 binary phase shift keying (pi/2-BPSK) modulation and coding scheme; and performing, in response to the...