ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,040, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for selective transmission of an on-demand synchronization signal block during a cell discontinuous transmission inactive time" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Diana Maamari (San Diego) and Marwen Zorgui (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information that configures resources associated with an on-demand synchronization signal block (SSB) that include a first occasion occurring during...