US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 26 for "Network synchronization for MBS SFN" (British, American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,558, issued on May 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Network synchronization for MBS SFN" was invented by Prasad Reddy Kadiri (San Diego), Xipeng Zhu (San Diego), Miguel Griot (La Jolla, Calif.), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Umesh Phuyal (San Diego), Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Kazuki Takeda (Minato-ku, Japan) and Luis Fernando Brisson Lopes (Swindon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A central unit (CU) transmits synchronization timing information for a multicast broadcast service (MBS) single frequency network (SFN) data transmission in a synchronous manner to multiple distributed units (DUs). The CU tr...