ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,180, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Random access channel configuration in time domain for NR in unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Lopamudra Kundu (Aalborg, Denmark), Gang Xiong (Gistrup, Denmark) and Yongjun Kwak (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for adjusting random access channel occasions support operation in unlicensed spectrum. In one example, a method includes determining a set of preconfigured random access channel (RACH) occasions (ROs) that includes a plurality of successive ROs; deriving an set of adjusted ROs by inserting a ...