ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,442, issued on March 17, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Synchronization and feeder link delay drift in non-terrestrial network communications" was invented by Abdelkader Medles (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Gilles Charbit (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various solutions for synchronization and feeder link delay drift in non-terrestrial network (NTN) communications are described. An apparatus (e.g., a UE) receives from a network information of a common timing advance (TA), a common TA drift rate, and a common TA drift rate variation at a reference time. The apparatus determines a...