ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,889, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Gradual timing adjustment for communication in NTN" was invented by Changhwan Park (San Diego), Liangping Ma (San Diego), Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus at a user equipment (UE) in a non-terrestrial network (NTN) are provided. The UE may be configured to receive one or more timing advance (TA) commands from an NTN. In response to a transmission timing error between a transmission TA of the UE and a reference timing exceeding a th...