ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,989, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Timing synchronization method and apparatus" was invented by Fengwei Liu (Chengdu, China), Shitong Yuan (Chengdu, China) and Jing Qiu (Chengdu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a timing synchronization method and an apparatus, to improve precision of a downlink transmit timing of a relay node. The method includes: The first node receives first indication information from a donor node, where the first indication information is used to indicate information about a plurality of second nodes, and the second node is a par...