ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,054, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Synchronization signal block index detection" was invented by Prashant Sharma (San Jose, Calif.), Jae Ho Ryu (San Diego), Changhwan Park (San Diego) and Chu-Hsiang Huang (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 synchronization signal block (SSB) offset indication that indicates a maximum timing offset between an SSB index of a first cell and an SSB index of a second cell. The UE may perform SSB index detection based at least in p...