ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,694, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and apparatus for frequency synchronization communication" was invented by Navid Abedini (Somerset, N.J.), Luca Blessent (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Jianghong Luo (Skillman, N.J.), Alessio Marcone (Nuremberg, Germany), Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu (Yokohama, Japan), Karl Georg Hampel (Hoboken, N.J.), Muhammad Nazmul Islam (Littleton, Mass.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Chester, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless communication at a wireless device or integrated access and backhaul (IAB) ...