ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,702, issued on June 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Autonomous timing advance compensation for air-to-ground communication" was invented by Qiaoyu Li (Beijing), Jian Li (Shanghai), Chenxi Hao (Beijing) and Yu Zhang (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, an aerial user equipment (UE) may measure a first offset associated with a downlink frame based at least in part on a time when a downlink signal is received from a terrestrial base station. The aerial UE may determine a second offset corresponding to a starting ti...