ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,166, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Scrambling of physical broadcast channel (PBCH)" was invented by Dae Won Lee (Portland, Ore.), Seunghee Han (San Jose, Calif.), Gregory Vladimirovich Morozov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) and Yongjun Kwak (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to decode physical broadcast channel (PBCH) information received from a base station (BS). The decoded PBCH information includes a scrambled PBCH payload and an unscrambled bit sequence. A scramblin...