ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,562, issued on April 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Joint timing advance and cell activation signaling" was invented by Shanyu Zhou (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information corresponding to a Layer 1 or Layer 2 (L1/L2) inter-cell mobility operation associated with an L1/L2 mobility configured cell set. The UE may receive, based on the configuration information, a joint timing advance (TA) and cel...