US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Aug. 5 for "Uplink and downlink synchronization procedures" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,539, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Uplink and downlink synchronization procedures" was invented by Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.) and Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Uplink and downlink synchronization procedures are described for wireless communications. A base station may send a reconfiguration message to a wireless device before a random access procedure. The reconfiguration message may set an active uplink index and an active...