ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,458, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"RACH procedures for non-terrestrial networks for user equipment" was invented by Chunxuan Ye (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Sigen Ye (Cupertino, Calif.), Weidong Yang (Cupertino, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Sarma V. Vangala (Cupertino, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Cupertino, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing) and Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems to enhance NR RACH procedure to accommodate non-ter...