Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Random Access Channel (RACH) -Less Handover (HO) For Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN)' Filed by Apple Inc.

MUMBAI, India, Oct. 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517093635 A) filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, U.S.A., on Sept. 29, for 'random access channel (rach) -less handover (ho) for non-terrestrial networks (ntn).'

Inventor(s) include Xu, Fangli; Hu, Haijing; Chen, Yuqin; Cui, Jie; Li, Qiming; Ye, Chunxuan; Yao, Chunhai; and Zhang, Dawei.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 31, under issue no. 44/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing mechanisms for Random Access Channel (RACH) -less handover for Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN). For example, a user equipment (UE) is c...