ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,489, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"RACH optimization for NB-IoT NTN GSO" was invented by Srikanth Menon (Bangalore, India) and Raghuveer Ramakrishna Srinivas Tarimala (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for optimized RACH procedures in NTNs including NB-IoT. A UE performs in an NTN one or more of a first or second procedure in an idle mode, or a third procedure in a connected mode. In the first procedure, the UE considers a number of RAPIDs in msg2, and if the number meets a threshold, the UE applies a backoff to delay send...