ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,767, issued on June 10, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for PRACH repetitions" was invented by Hongmei Liu (Changping District, China), Zhi Yan (Xicheng District, China), Yingying Li (Haidian District, China), Yuantao Zhang (Dongcheng District, China) and Haipeng Lei (Haidian District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus for physical random access channel (PRACH) repetitions. A method according to an embodiment of the present application includes: receiving signaling information for indicating a synchronization signal ...