US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 4 for "Reconfigurable intelligent surface or repeater assisted synchronization signal block transmission and initial access" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,393, issued on March 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reconfigurable intelligent surface or repeater assisted synchronization signal block transmission and initial access" was invented by Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Yucheng Dai (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

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) transmitted by a base station. The UE may receive system information tha...