ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,881, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Security for downlink signaling" was invented by Kazuki Takeda (Minato-ku, Japan), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Javier Rodriguez Fernandez (San Diego), Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego), Umesh Phuyal (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Juan Montojo (San Diego) and Edward George Tiedemann Jr. (Concord, Mass.).

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 monitor a set of resources for one or more synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) associated with one or mo...