US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 22 for "Random access message for deactivated cell timing adjustments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,671, issued on April 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Random access message for deactivated cell timing adjustments" was invented by Shanyu Zhou (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.) and Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for updating timing advance values for deactivated cells are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a first cell that is deactivated, a random access message for a timing advance probing procedure. The UE may transmit the random access message to the first cell. In some examples, the UE may receive, from a second cell, an activati...