US Patent Issued to Apple on April 7 for "Electronic devices with frequency scan acceleration" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,541, issued on April 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic devices with frequency scan acceleration" was invented by Shay Gershoni (Hadera, Israel), Ran Shimon (Givatayim, Israel), Aviv Gonen (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itan Levin (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ran Berliner (Kfar Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device having a radio is provided. When the radio boots up, the radio may search for downlink signals transmitted by a wireless base station. The device may generate a narrow set of candidate frequencies over which to search for the downlink signals by leveraging a cyclic prefix autocorrelati...