US Patent Issued to Apple on June 17 for "Random access channel configuration in an integrated access and backhaul network" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,018, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Random access channel configuration in an integrated access and backhaul network" was invented by Lili Wei (Portland, Ore.), Qian Li (Beaverton, Ore.) and Geng Wu (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs for communicating new random access channel (RACH) configurations for a node in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message from the IAB node; determining, based on the RRC message, a new random access chan...