ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,941, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Random access channel occasions associated with a relay" was invented by Yehonatan Dallal (Kfar Saba, Israel), Idan Michael Horn (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a relay may receive, from a network node and via a network node beam, a network node synchronization signal block (SSB). The relay may transmit, to a user equipment (UE) and via a relay beam, a relay SSB that is based at least in part on the network...