ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,083, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Early timing advance acquisition" was invented by Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Jian Xu (McLean, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.) and Fasil Abdul Latheef (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device receives, from a base station, a UE capability enquiry message and transmits a UE capability information message indicating a maximum number of candidate cells for ETA. The UE receives, from the base station, an RRC reconfiguration message comprising a LTM conf...