ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,085, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Timing advance loops" was invented by Morten Toft (Svenstrup, Denmark), Samantha Caporal Del Barrio (Aalborg, Denmark), Christian Rom (Aalborg, Denmark), Simon Svendsen (Aalborg, Denmark) and Sami-Jukka Hakola (Kempele, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments may relate to an apparatus, method and/or computer program for managing timing advance loops. The method may comprise receiving, at a user equipment from a plurality of network nodes, respective downlink reference signals, wherein an antenna system of the user equipment receives t...