ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,207, issued on May 27, was assigned to SPREADTRUM SEMICONDUCTOR (NANJING) Co. LTD. (Nanjing, China).

"Method for uplink synchronization, communication apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Zhenzhu Lei (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for uplink (UL) synchronization, a communication apparatus, and a storage medium are disclosed in embodiments of the disclosure. The method for UL synchronization includes: determining, by a terminal device, one or more transmission gaps in a UL shared channel resource, where the UL shared channel resource is a resource occupied by a scheduled UL shared channel, and the on...