ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,264, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Timing improvements for wireless communications systems" was invented by Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego), Liangping Ma (San Diego), Ayan Sengupta (San Diego), Jun Ma (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Bharat Shrestha (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) may establish uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) radio frame timing structures to efficiently account for propagation delay and propagation delay variation associated with communications in the NTN. NTNs may manage (synchro...