ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,939, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Structure of minimum SI" was invented by Jing Lei (San Diego), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego) and Tingfang Ji (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE may receive an indication of a first assignment of a first PDSCH via a PBCH from a network entity. The first PDSCH may include at least a first portion of a SIB. The UE may receive the first portion of the SIB via the first PDSCH from the network entity based on the first assignment of the first PDSCH. The first portion of the SIB may include access control information for the network entity and the assignm...