ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,782, issued on May 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Timing advance validation enhancements for pre-configured uplink resources" was invented by Jing Lei (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Muhammad Nazmul Islam (Littleton, Mass.) and Linhai He (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and techniques are disclosed for managing timing advance (TA) validation of configured grant small data transmission (CG-SDT). A scheduling entity may receive downlink signal quality measurements for downlink beams from a scheduled entity, as well as a CG-SDT configuration request. The scheduling entity may tr...