ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,697, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (New Tech Park, Singapore).
"Uplink timing maintenance for communication paths including multiple legs involving a relay entity" was invented by Joachim Lohr (Wiesbaden, Germany), Hyung-Nam Choi (Ottobrunn, Germany), Prateek Basu Mallick (Langen, Germany) and Ravi Kuchibhotla (Clarendon Hills, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are provided, in which a service link path delay relative to a first leg of a communication path of a communication between the user equipment and a network entity via a relay entity is estimated (602), where the first...