ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,048, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Communicating timing information via system information" was invented by Iyab Issam Sakhnini (San Diego), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit an uplink trigger (ULT) message that indicates a request for a network entity to transmit a system information message including timing information for the UE. In response to the ULT message, the UE may receive the system information message indicating a timing advance...