ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,753, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for supplementary uplink access in wireless systems" was invented by Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal), Mouna Hajir (Montreal), Faris Alfarhan (Montreal), J. Patrick Tooher (Montreal), Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada) and Martino M. Freda (Laval, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a WTRU may comprise transmitting, to a gNB, a first random access preamble on a first physical random access channel (PRACH) resource of a first uplink (UL) carrier and determining that the transmission on the first PRACH resource is u...