ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,651, issued on May 20, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"RSS measurement in case of unknown number of CRS ports" was invented by Shin Horng Wong (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Martin Warwick Beale (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications device configured to receive a first re-synchronisation signal, RSS, to receive an indication of a position in time and frequency of an RSS of each of one or more first neighbouring cells, to determine that a number of cell-specific reference signal, CRS, ports of one of the first neighbouring cells is not known by the communications device, to carry out ...