US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 10 for "Method and apparatus for indexing of SS/PBCH block in unlicensed spectrum" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,596, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for indexing of SS/PBCH block in unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Hongbo Si (Plano, Texas) and Yingzhe Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method and apparatus comprises: receiving a synchronization signals and physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block; determining whether a shared spectrum channel access is enabled; determining a first index of the SS/PBCH block as a candidate SS/PBCH block index (I...