ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,037, issued on May 6, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for msg-A transmission in two-step RACH" was invented by Loic Canonne-Velasquez (Dorval, Canada), Afshin Haghighat (Ile-Bizard, Canada), Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar (San Diego) and J. Patrick Tooher (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for beam refinement are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may be configured to receive configuration information. The configuration information may indicate an association between preambles, synchronization signal blocks (SSBs), reference signal (RS) set...