ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,200, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multiple physical random access channel (PRACH) transmissions for coverage enhancement" was invented by Gang Xiong (Portland, Ore.), Prerana Rane (Newark, Calif.) and Sergey Sosnin (Zavolzhie, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments herein provide techniques for multiple physical random access channel (PRACH) transmissions for coverage enhancement. For example, embodiments may relate to PRACH window determination for multiple PRACH transmissions. In one example, the PRACH repetition window is determined in accordance with a number of consecu...