US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 7 for "Uplink carrier selection for PRACH transmission between a NR dedicated carrier and a LTE/NR shared carrier" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,392, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Uplink carrier selection for PRACH transmission between a NR dedicated carrier and a LTE/NR shared carrier" was invented by Caroline Liang (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cellular communication system is disclosed in which user equipment (UE) initiates a random access channel (RACH) procedure by sending one or more messages, comprising a random access preamble, to a 5G base station, using one or more uplink carriers of a plurality of such carriers available for use by the UE. The base station selects an uplink carrier for initial access by the UE and informs the UE, as...