ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,927, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Uplink timing method and related apparatus" was invented by Lili Zhang (Beijing), Jinlin Peng (Shanghai) and Xizeng Dai (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a terminal device, timing information; determining, by the terminal device, a first uplink sending moment based on the timing information and a synchronization signal; and sending, by the terminal device, an uplink signal to an access network device at the first uplink sending moment, wherein both the timing information and the synchronization signal are fr...