US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 29 for "Association of synchronization signal blocks to random access occasions" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,774, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Association of synchronization signal blocks to random access occasions" was invented by Chao Wei (Beijing), Qiaoyu Li (Beijing), Hao Xu (Beijing) and Wanshi Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) receiving, from a base station, one or more random access channel (RACH) configurations. The RACH configurations may allocate resources for a contention-based RACH procedure for accessing a wireless network. Based on the RACH...