ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,086, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Synchronization signal based multicast transmission" was invented by Chao Wei (Beijing), Min Huang (Beijing), Hao Xu (Beijing), Qiaoyu Li (Beijing), Jing Dai (Beijing), Chenxi Hao (Beijing) and Wei Xi (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit one or more synchronization signal blocks (SSBs), each SSB including a system information block (SIB), to one or more user equipments (UEs). A UE of the one or more UEs may select an SSB with a corresponding SSB index for receiving...