ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,197, issued on July 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Increasing random access coverage" was invented by Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Idan Michael Horn (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a first indication of a first set of random access occasions associated with a synchronization signal block that corresponds with a first receive beam of a base station. The UE may receive a second indication of a second set of random access occasions that are each associated with a respective receive beam...