ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,289, issued on April 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for timing advance" was invented by Zhipeng Lin (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, and computer program products for timing advance. A method in a wireless device, comprises: determining if a timing advance command received in a media access control (MAC) control element is an absolute timing advance command; and when it is determined that the timing advance command is an absolute timing advance command, determining a timing advance based on a...