ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,947, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Initial cell search procedure" was invented by Man Hung Ng (Swindon, Great Britain), Hisashi Onozawa (Tokyo), Kari Juhani Hooli (Oulu, Finland) and Sami-Jukka Hakola (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a user equipment apparatus that includes at least one processor and at least one memory. The memory stores instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the user equipment apparatus at least to perform an initial cell search of one or more cells on a network. A synchronization raster includes a cluster o...