ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,804, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to FUJITSU Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Method for maintaining time advance timer, base station and terminal equipment" was invented by Yanling Lu (Beijing), Haibo Xu (Beijing) and Weiwei Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station including: a judging unit configured to judge whether a band to be uplink adjusted includes only a band corresponding to a primary cell; and a transmitter configured to transmit a command for the band corresponding to the primary cell when the judging unit determines that the band to be uplink adjusted includes only the band corresponding to the primary cell...