US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 20 for "Acquiring system information based on multiple beams" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,316, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Acquiring system information based on multiple beams" was invented by Siri Gowtham (San Diego) and Hongbo Yan (Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to acquiring system information. In an example, a network can transmit instances of a same system information on multiple SSB beams. A UE can select a set of the SSB beams for system information acquisition. Soft decoding information, such as LLR, from the decoding of the instances received on the selected SSB beams is combined to decode and acquire the system information."

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