ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,052, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Epoch time acquisition for non-terrestrial networks (NTN) handover" was invented by Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing), Yuqin Chen (Beijing) and Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a serving cell and a target cell and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to r...