ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,495, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Signalling enabling timing advance exchange between user equipment and radio access network" was invented by Jeroen Wigard (Aalborg, Denmark), Mads Lauridsen (Aalborg, Denmark) and Ping Yuan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of signalling enabling Timing Advance (TA) exchange between User Equipment (UE) and Radio Access Network (RAN). The method comprises receiving, at a first device, a TA margin from a second device; transmitting, to t...