ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,740, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for random access communication support using remotely-located nodes in a wireless network" was invented by Raja Sekhar Bachu (Kendall Park, N.J.) and Kanchan Kumar Gorain (Somerset, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein relate to sending, from a distributed unit (DU), a control signal that is transparent to communications on an uplink data channel and a random access channel, receiving, at the DU, a signal from a radio unit (RU) over resources for the random access channel, and decoding a random access communication from the signal ...