ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,775, issued on June 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Criteria for PRACH repetition" was invented by Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Juan Montojo (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Jing Sun (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques may enhance coverage by supporting repetitions of a random access request. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network entity, a synchronization signal block ...