ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,861, issued on July 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Methods, devices, and medium for communication" was invented by Lin Liang (Beijing) and Gang Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to communication. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a network device is able to configure resources dedicated to repetition of transmission during the access procedure. If a terminal device determines to perform the repetition of transmission, the terminal device uses the dedicated resources for the transmission. The numbers of the repetition are determined based on a target po...