ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,398, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"System and method for transmitting control information" was invented by Naoki Kusashima (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuyuki Shimezawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroki Matsuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device including circuitry configured to: receive one or more synchronization signal blocks periodically transmitted from a base station, each synchronization signal block containing Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS), Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS) and Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH), wherein the PBCH carries a Master Information Block (MIB) which con...