US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 22 for "Time offset maintenance for nonterrestrial network (NTN)" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,589, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Time offset maintenance for nonterrestrial network (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: "A user equipment (UE) associat...