ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,908, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Global navigation satellite system assisted synchronization signal block transmission in nonterrestrial networks" was invented by Jae Ho Ryu (San Diego), Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego) and Yongle Wu (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 information indicating a reference time. The UE may monitor a frequency to detect a synchronization signal block (SSB), wherein the frequency is monitored during a se...