Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Rach Procedures For Non-Terrestrial Networks For Base Station' Filed by Apple Inc.

MUMBAI, India, Oct. 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202518091105 A) filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, U.S.A., on Sept. 23, for 'rach procedures for non-terrestrial networks for base station.'

Inventor(s) include Yao, Chunhai; Ye, Chunxuan; Zhang, Dawei; Zeng, Wei; Sun, Haitong; Ye, Sigen; Yang, Weidong; Oteri, Oghenekome; He, Hong; Zhang, Yushu; Vangala, Sarma; and Hu, Haijing.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 10, under issue no. 41/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Methods and systems to enhance NR RACH procedure to accommodate nonterrestrial networks (NTN) 5 are disclosed. The length of the RAR window may be extended. In one aspect, a gN...