ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,871, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Physical broadcast channel for channel correction" was invented by Yuhung Kao (San Diego) and Ravinder Kumar (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a first physical broadcast channel (PBCH) communication on a channel. The UE may decode the first PBCH communication as a decoded PBCH payload. The UE may reencode the decoded PBCH payload as a first pilot signal. The UE may receive a first data communication with first data. The UE m...