ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,646, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Physical broadcast channel (PBCH) extension to manage extended master information block (MIB)" was invented by David Bhatoolaul (Swindon, Great Britain), Nitin Mangalvedhe (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), Rapeepat Ratasuk (Inverness, Ill.), Michel Robert (Vanves, France) and Srinivasan Selvaganapathy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for physical broadcast channel (PBCH) extension to manage extended master information block (MIB) are provided. A user equipment (UE) may determine whethe...