ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,211, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Maintenance of multiple timing advance groups" was invented by Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Gautham Prasad (Herndon, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.) and Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device may receive one or more messages indicating at least two timing advance groups (TAGs) for a cell, wherein each TAG of the at least two TAGs is associated with a respective transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state. A wireless device may receive downlink control information (DCI). The DCI may indicate a semi-persistent schedulin...