ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,353, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cell synchronization and timing management in a wireless network" was invented by Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Shanyu Zhou (San Diego), Aleksandar Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide techniques for enabling cell synchronization and timing adjustment management in layer 1 and layer 2 (L1-L2) centric mobility applications. A user equipment (UE) communicates with a network entity using one or more cells of a plurality of cells that are configured for mobility operations using la...