US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 7 for "Timing advance acquisition in layer 1/layer 2-triggered mobility" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,326, issued on July 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Timing advance acquisition in layer 1/layer 2-triggered mobility" was invented by Naeem Akl (Bridgewater, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.) and Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a random access channel (RACH) message to a first distributed unit (DU) via a cell supported by the first DU to support acquisition of timing advance (TA) information prior to switching to the cell. A second DU serving the UE may identif...