US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Method for delay spread acquisition for TA validation" (Danish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,054, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method for delay spread acquisition for TA validation" was invented by Oana-Elena Barbu (Aalborg, Denmark), Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Gistrup, Denmark), Daniela Laselva (Klarup, Denmark) and Gerhard Schreiber (Korntal Munchingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to: receive a downlink signal; determine whether a TA stored at the apparatus is valid based, at least partially, on a reception timing of the received downlink signal and a delay spread value; and initiate small data transmission with a pre-configured uplink res...