US Patent Issued to Sharp on Sept. 30 for "User equipment and method for timing alignment" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,033, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"User equipment and method for timing alignment" was invented by Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan), Mei-Ju Shih (Taipei, Taiwan), Heng-Li Chin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yung-Lan Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a user equipment (UE) for timing alignment is provided. The method includes maintaining a Timing Advance (TA) value as a first TA value; receiving, from a Base Station (BS), a TA command during a Random Access (RA) procedure; applying the TA command to set the TA value to a second TA value included in the TA command in a case that a f...