ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,432, issued on June 23, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for transmitting scheduling request based on time alignment timer by user equipment in wireless communication system" was invented by Jonggil Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Sunyoung Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Seungjune Yi (Seoul, South Korea) and Seongjoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of transmitting a Scheduling Request (SR) based on a time Alignment Timer (TAT) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method includes the steps of...