ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,999, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for timing synchronization in communication system" was invented by Ji Hyung Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Mi Young Yun (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation method of a terminal in a communication system may include: estimating a propagation delay between the terminal and a first satellite, the first satellite being connected to the terminal and a base station of the communication system; estimating a terminal-specific TA value based on the propagation delay; trans...