ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,988, issued on March 24.
"Apparatus and methods for improving time advance alignment process in non-terrestrial wireless network" was invented by Andreas Falkenberg (Escondido, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of time aligning by a user equipment (UE) requires measuring a downlink (DL) signal, including a first timing advance (TA) value. The DL signal is transmitted from a base station (BS) to derive measurement results. The method further includes transmitting the measurement results to a base station (BS), computing a second TA value from the first TA value, and aligning uplink (UL) transmission timing by the second ...