ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,698, issued on April 29, was assigned to WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Physical channel and method for transmitting and receiving signals in wireless communication system, and apparatus using the same" was invented by Minseok Noh (Seoul, South Korea), Kyungjun Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jinsam Kwak (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station in a wireless communication system is disclosed. Each base station in the wireless communication comprises: a communication module; and a processor. When the processor attempts to transmit a synchronization signal...