ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,265, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method to determine value as timing advance and to perform handover from source cell to target cell" was invented by Cristina Ciochina (Rennes Cedex, France) and Nicolas Gresset (Rennes Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method implemented by a user equipment to determine a value to be used as a timing advance in a target cell in a network comprising a satellite communication network, said method comprising: determining the value to be used as a timing advance in a target cell, before the user equipment transmits a...