ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,004, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Primary synchronization signal design" was invented by Jing Lei (San Diego), Yongle Wu (San Diego) and Jing Jiang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network entity configures a synchronization signal block (SSB) using SSB resources that convey a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) within an SSB resource area of a resource grid bounded in time by a first configured integer number of time units and bounded in frequency by a second configured integer number of physical channels....