US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 23 for "Use of physical broadcast channel demodulation reference signal to speed up neighbor cell measurement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,991, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Use of physical broadcast channel demodulation reference signal to speed up neighbor cell measurement" was invented by Jun Zhu (San Diego), Kang Gao (San Diego), Yong Li (San Diego) and Raghu Narayan Challa (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a wireless communication system, a user equipment (UE) may measure synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) to evaluate neighbor cells. A UE configured with multiple potential receive beams may conventionally measure one receive beam per SSB. A UE may improve the speed of receive beam measurements by performing measuremen...