ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,248, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Koninklijike Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Expiry of time alignment timer" was invented by Gautham Prasad (Herndon, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Kai Xu (Great Falls, Va.) and Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory comprises instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause a wireless device to receive one or more messages indicating a plurality of timing advance groups (TAGs). The plurality of TAGs comprises at least two primary timing advance groups (PTAGs) for a special cell (SpCell...