ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,177, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods, apparatus, systems and procedures for distance dependent random access channel (RACH) preamble selection in non-terrestrial networks (NTNs)" was invented by Nagi Mahalingam (San Diego), Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego), Ravikumar Pragada (Warrington, Pa.), Faris Alfarhan (Montreal, Canada) and Yugeswar Deenoo (Chalfont, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus and systems are disclosed. In one representative embodiment, a method may be implemented by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for communication via ...