ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,221, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ASUS Technology Licensing Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for UL synchronization handling for satellite switch in a wireless communication system" was invented by Yi-Hsuan Huang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Meng-Hui Ou (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for Uplink (UL) synchronization handling for satellite switching in a wireless communication system. As such, a User Equipment (UE) can handle UL synchronization for satellite switching, thereby avoiding reducing transmission efficiency. The UE can also handle resources and/or confi...