ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,997, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Joint-processing of random access channel communications" was invented by Jibing Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Erik Richard Stauffer (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatuses are described for joint-processing of random access channel communications to improve the reliability and/or the geographic range of a random access procedure for a user equipment. Joint-processing, including joint-transmission and/or joint-reception, by a user equipment-coordination set on behalf of a single user equipment, or by an Active Coordination ...