ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,246, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Incorproated (San Diego).

"Multiplexing synchronization signal blocks in frequency" was invented by Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method of wireless communication at a network entity, comprising transmitting, in different time periods, different subsets of a set of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs), wherein SSBs within a subset are transmitted using frequency division multiplexing and applying different spatial filtering to different SSBs of a s...