ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,767, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"RA-RNTI formula for extended random access response windows" was invented by Linhai He (San Diego), Ruiming Zheng (Beijing) and Jing Lei (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration for multiple UEs having the same RA-RNTI to generate RA-RNTI for RACH procedures. The apparatus transmits a random access message. The apparatus receives a RAR during a RAR window in response to the random access message. The RAR window spanning at least two system frames. The apparatus determines one or more RA-RNTIs. Each RA-RNTI may be based, at least in part, on a random ...