ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,388, issued on June 24, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"RO dropping and RA-RNTI calculation" was invented by Alessio Marcone (Munich), Nhat-Quang Nhan (Reims, France), Amir Mehdi Ahmadian Tehrani (Munich), Marco Maso (Issy les Moulineaux, France) and Leonardo Chiarello (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage medium for Random Access Channel (RACH) occasion (RO) dropping. In a method, a device determines a set of valid random access channel occasions (ROs) for a physical random access channel (PRA...