ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,015, issued on May 20, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Guangdong, China).

"Synchronization signal transmission" was invented by Kai Xiao (Guangdong, China), Xing Liu (Guangdong, China), Peng Hao (Guangdong, China), Feng Bi (Guangdong, China) and Wei Gou (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems for providing Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) mapping schemes are described. The techniques can be implemented in various embodiments to allow the transmission of SSB using higher spectrum frequencies. The techniques also take into account of various Cyclic Prefix (CP) lengths for compatibility concerns. In...