ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,293, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Directional collision handling for non-cell-defining synchronization signal block" was invented by Jing Lei (San Diego), Kazuki Takeda (Minato-ku, Japan) and Peter Gaal (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. Some aspects generally relate to reducing interference in a user equipment (UE) with respect to non-cell defining synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (NCD-SSB) communications. Some aspects more specifically relate to configuring the UE to mitigate inte...