US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 4 for "Timing advance (TA) maintenance in non-terrestrial networks (NTN)" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,523, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Timing advance (TA) maintenance in non-terrestrial networks (NTN)" was invented by Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Sarma V. Vangala (Campbell, Calif.), Sigen Ye (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques discussed here...