US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 3 for "Hierarchical physical cell identifier addressing" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,427, issued on March 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hierarchical physical cell identifier addressing" was invented by Naeem Akl (Bridgewater, N.J.), Karl Georg Hampel (Jersey City, N.J.), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a first set of one or more signals and a second set of one or more signals, the first set of one or more signals indicating a first code value associated with a physical cell identifier (PCI), and the second set of one or more sig...