ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,512, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"PRACH (physical random access channel) ramping and dynamic beam switching of control and data transmissions" was invented by Honglei Miao (Munich), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Yongjun Kwak (Portland, Ore.), Dae Won Lee (Portland, Ore.), Gregory V Morozov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) and Seung Hee Han (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques discussed herein can facilitate power ramping of PRACH (Physical Random Access Channel), for example, in connection with change of best gNB (next generation Node B) Tx (Transmit) beam and/or dynamic beam switching ...