ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,688, issued on June 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Supplementary uplink sul configuration method and apparatus" was invented by Zhou Xu (Madrid), Liwen Zhang (Shanghai) and Xu Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a supplementary uplink (SUL) configuration method includes determining, by an access network device, a plurality of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs), wherein each of the plurality of SSBs comprises configuration information of one SUL and broadcasting, by the access network device, the plurality of SSBs on a downlink."

The patent was filed on March 13, 2023, ...