ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,312, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"DL control resources sets and RACH procedure during initial access" was invented by Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Irvine, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Wei Zeng (San Diego) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for downlink control resources sets and RACH procedures during initial access in wireless communication, e.g., in 5G NR systems and beyond, incl...