ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,434, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi-cell synchronization for dual connectivity and carrier aggregation" was invented by Yiqing Cao (Beijing), Yan Li (Beijing), Ling Xie (Beijing), Jie Mao (Beijing), Kepei Tang (Beijing) and Bin Han (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatus for achieving multi-cell synchronization for dual connectivity and carrier aggregation are described. In one technique, a timing difference between a first base station (BS) and a second BS is determined, where the first BS is in an asynchronous timing configuration with respect to the second BS. A measur...