US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on June 30 for "Method and apparatus for timing alignment based on scheduling request" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,081, issued on June 30, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for timing alignment based on scheduling request" was invented by Soon Yong Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Mi Jeong Yang (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Min Oh (Daejeon, South Korea) and You Sun Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation method of a terminal in a communication system may comprise: in response to occurrence of uplink (UL) data, transmitting a scheduling request (SR) for the UL data to a base station; performing a UL timing alignment procedure with the base s...