ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,718, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Anchor cell management procedure for synchronization signal block (SSB)-less carrier" was invented by Jae Ho Ryu (San Diego), Changhwan Park (San Diego), Konstantinos Dimou (New York) and Hari Sankar (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. Various aspects relate generally to anchor cell management for a synchronization signal block (SSB)-less secondary cell (SCell). In some aspects, an anchor cell in a different frequency band from an SSB-less SCell may be used for downlink beam...