ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,358, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Receive timing difference for inter-band asynchronous NR-DC operation" was invented by Ilya Bolotin (Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia), Meng Zhang (Beijing), Andrey Chervyakov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Hua Li (Arlington, Va.) and Rui Huang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and system of establishing receive timing difference (RTD) for high subcarrier spacing (SCS) are described. The RTD is dependent on whether carrier aggregation (CA) or dual connectivity (DC) is used. For CA, RTD reflects the entire time difference between carriers caused by a Tim...