ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,199, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for time-domain PRACH resource determination in wireless communication" was invented by Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (Cupertino, Calif.), Huaning Niu (Cupertino, Calif.), Jie Cui (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (Cupertino, Calif.), Sigen Ye (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.), Weidong Yang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and apparatus for determining time-domain PRACH resources in ...