ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,317, issued on April 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Random access preamble transmission method, apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Xiaolu Wang (Hangzhou, China), Hejia Luo (Hangzhou, China), Jianwei Zhou (Hangzhou, China), Chenlei Xu (Hangzhou, China), Bin Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Rong Li (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to random access preamble transmission methods, apparatuses, and storage mediums. In one example method, a terminal device determines, based on a target sub-coverage area to which the terminal device belongs in a preset c...