ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,470, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System and method for power control for 2-step random access channel (RACH)" was invented by Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Gang Xiong (Portland, Ore.) and Hong He (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for power control aspects for message A (MsgA) physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The approach includes determining a transmission power for a PUSCH associated with a physical random access channel (PRACH) in a 2-step random access channel (RACH) mode, where the transmission power for t...