ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,257, issued on April 14, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods, devices, and systems for determining sync raster" was invented by Kai Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Xing Liu (Shenzhen, China), Peng Hao (Shenzhen, China) and Jing Shi (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes methods, systems and devices for determining sync raster. One method includes determining, by a user equipment (UE), a sync raster (SR) with a base station, wherein a first bandwidth of a synchronization signal or physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block is larger than or equal to a minimum bandwidth in a narrowba...