US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 27 for "Early time alignment acquisition for fast cell switching" (American, Taiwanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,392, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Early time alignment acquisition for fast cell switching" was invented by Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Gautham Prasad (Herndon, Va.), Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.), Jian Xu (McLean, Va.), Fasil Abdul Latheef (Dresden, Germany) and Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device may communicate via one or more cells. A cell switching command may be used to indicate cell switching for the wireless device. Before th...