ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,477, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for PBCH payload in higher frequency ranges" was invented by Hongbo Si (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for transmitting or receiving a synchronization signals and physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a SS/PBCH block, decoding a content of a PBCH in the SS/PBCH block, and determining whether the wireless communication system operates with shared spectrum channel access based on the c...