ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,041, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Determining transmission preparation time for wireless communication on at least one carrier" was invented by Peter Gaal (San Diego), Yiqing Cao (Beijing) and Yi Huang (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station (BS) may determine (estimate) a preparation time for at least one uplink (UL) transmission by a user equipment (UE) on at least one radio frequency (RF) carrier. The BS may determine the preparation time so that the BS will send a grant for the at least one transmission to the UE a sufficient amount of time (based on the estimated preparation tim...