ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,206, issued on May 27, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for timing adjustment in mobile communication system" was invented by Kapseok Chang (Daejeon, South Korea), Young-Jo Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Cheul Soon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Yong Sun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Il Gyu Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A timing adjustment method performed by a terminal may include: acquiring downlink synchronization with a base station; obtaining, from the base station, TA granularity-related information; transmitting, to the base...