ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,651, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for retransmitting random access messages in wireless communications" was invented by Jing Lei (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Joseph Binamira Soriaga (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein relate to determining a failure associated with reception, by a base station, of an initial transmission of a random access message transmitted by the UE in a two-step random access procedure, and based on determining the failure situations associated with reception of the random access message, configuring th...