ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,512, issued on June 30, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Radio unit time alignment and delay characterization" was invented by Weihong Zhang (Ottawa), Wei Liu (Ottawa) and Elijah De Groote (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Radio unit equipment that facilitates radio unit time alignment and delay characterization includes a buffer that stores input data received via a signal ingress point of the radio unit equipment, resulting in buffered data. The radio unit equipment also includes clock generation logic that provides a synchronized frame number (SFN) pulse to the buffer. The buffer releases the buf...