US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 26 for "LTE-NR relative timing indication" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,556, issued on May 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"LTE-NR relative timing indication" was invented by Xipeng Zhu (San Diego), Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam (San Diego), Luis Fernando Brisson Lopes (Swindon, Great Britain) and Neel Tej Adusumilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two or more base stations may share relative timing information. For example, a first cell may determining a cell level system frame number (SFN) and frame timing difference (SFTD) between the first cell and a second cell. At least one user equipment (UE) can be configured with dual connectivity with the first cell and the second cell. Th...