US Patent Issued to Apple on June 17 for "Channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) based contention free random access (CFRA) in radio resource management (RRM)" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,017, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) based contention free random access (CFRA) in radio resource management (RRM)" was invented by Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.) and Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE), baseband processor or other network device (e.g., base station, next generation Nod...