ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,391, issued on June 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for providing random access channel (RACH) signaling to user equipment (UE) during inactive direct transmissions" was invented by Fangli Xu (Beijing), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Cupertino, Calif.), Longda Xing (Cupertino, Calif.), Murtaza A. Shikari (Cupertino, Calif.), Sarma V. Vangala (Cupertino, Calif.), Srinivasan Nimmala (Cupertino, Calif.) and Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques discussed herein can facilitate inactive state transmissions for a Base Station (BS) ...