ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,273, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for transmitting synchronization signal in wireless communication system" was invented by Hyunseok Ryu (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeongho Yeo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinyoung Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sungjin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jonghyun Bang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Cheolkyu Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a communication technique for convergence of IoT technology and a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate...