ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,406, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Power-efficient communication synchronization" was invented by Idan Bar-Sade (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ajay Panchal (San Diego), Baohua Zheng (San Diego) and Prashant H Vashi (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications system may include user equipment (UE) devices, non-geostationary orbit satellites, and gateways. The satellites may provide communications services to the UE devices. A given satellite may have a set of signal beams. The satellite may transmit bursts of repeated system synchronization blocks (SSBs), repeated first system informat...