ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,157, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Timing change and new radio mobility procedure" was invented by Hsuan-Li Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Tsang-Wei Yu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining the maximum timing change (MTC) based on subcarrier spacing (SCS) configuration for UE measurement and reporting of a neighbor cell in 5 GS is proposed. During measurement procedure, UE first checks whether a neighbor cell has been detectable at least for the time period Tidentity, and becomes undetectable for a period less than equal to5 seconds, and then the cell becomes detecta...