ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,304, issued on April 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Random access preamble transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Kuandong Gao (Chengdu, China), Mao Yan (Chengdu, China) and Huang Huang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a random access preamble transmission method and an apparatus. In one example method, a terminal receives indication information, and may indicate, with reference to the indication information, whether a first path loss is the same as a second path loss, and determine the first path loss based on the second path loss. Then, the ter...