ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,731, issued on April 21.

"Ultra-lean localization and doppler procedures for 5G and 6G" was invented by David E. Newman (Poway, Calif.) and R. Kemp Massengill (Palos Verdes, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "5G and especially 6G are intended to accommodate high-speed mobile user devices and access points such as wireless devices on trains and airplanes, while retaining enhanced mobile broadband eMBB service. Therefore, new resource-efficient, low-complexity procedures are needed for measuring and correcting the Doppler frequency shift. To assist user devices, a base station or access point can periodically broadcast a current ge...