US Patent Issued to Sharp on May 20 for "Reporting user equipment specific timing advance in a non-terrestrial network" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,730, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Reporting user equipment specific timing advance in a non-terrestrial network" was invented by Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan), Chien-Chun Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Heng-Li Chin (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a user equipment (UE) in a non-terrestrial network (NTN) is provided. The method receives, from a base station (BS), an indication associated with a UE-specific timing advance (TA) report. The indication includes a value. The method initiates a random access (RA) procedure. The method then determines whether to transmit the UE-specifi...