US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Jan. 13 for "Linkage of Msg3 repetition request and Msg4 PUCCH repetition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,848, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Linkage of Msg3 repetition request and Msg4 PUCCH repetition" was invented by Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus to link a Msg4 PUCCH coverage enhancement and a Msg3 repetition request. The apparatus transmits a PRACH to initiate a RACH procedure, the PRACH including a request for a first coverage enhancement associated with the RACH procedure. The request includes information related to at least a second coverage enhancement associated ...