ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,058, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Malikie Innovations Ltd. (Dublin).

"Timing advance enhancements for cellular communications" was invented by Satish Venkob (Waterloo, Canada), David Philip Hole (Southampton, Great Britain), Rene Faurie (Versailles, France), Remo Borsella (Waterloo, Canada), Werner Karl Kreuzer (Baiern, Germany) and Steven Michael Hanov (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed example method involves, when a device is operating in a stationary mode and before a need of the device to communicate data, determining whether a stored timing advance is valid. When the stored timing advance is not ...