US Patent Issued to Intel on July 28 for "UE uplink timing for non-terrestrial networks" (Chinese, Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,225, issued on July 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"UE uplink timing for non-terrestrial networks" was invented by Meng Zhang (Beijing), Andrey Chervyakov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Rui Huang (Beijing), Hua Li (Arlington, Va.) and Ilya Bolotin (Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and system for setting an uplink timing advance (TA) for a non-terrestrial network (NTN) user equipment (UE) are described. The NTN UE estimates and updates a UE-specific TA value each period. The update is based on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positions and satellite ephemeris information....