ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,906, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Synchronization signal block pattern enhancement" was invented by Yihong Qi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Amir Aminzadeh Gohari (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Amir Farajidana (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dan Zhang (San Diego), Herbert R. Dawid (Herzogenrath, Germany), Idan Bar-Sade (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Keith W. Saints (San Diego), Onurcan Iscan (Munich), Ruoheng Liu (San Diego), Sami M. Almalfouh (San Jose, Calif.), Sung Eun Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tudor Ninacs (Munich), Wenshu Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yuanye Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is config...