ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,449, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Small delay cyclic delay diversity for data or control channels" was invented by Hyojin Lee (San Diego), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Jing Jiang (San Diego) and Jing Sun (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may first delay value associated with a small delay cyclic delay diversity (CDD) scheme for a broadcast channel. In some examples, the first delay value may be selected from a set of candidate delay values based on a frequency band associated with the broadcast channel. Th...