ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,297, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Accessing a cell utilizing a multiple beam network" was invented by Mattias Frenne (Uppsala, Sweden), Dirk Gerstenberger (Vallentuna, Sweden) and Johan Furuskog (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are disclosed which can be performed by a network node for sending to a wireless device a first synchronization signal and an associated information message, for synchronization of the wireless device with the network node. The network node and the wireless device operate in a wireless communications network. The network node sends the...