ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,768, issued on June 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Joint MSG3 repetition factor and TPC indication" was invented by Qiaoyu Li (Beijing), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Umesh Phuyal (San Diego), Jing Lei (San Diego), Chao Wei (Beijing), Peter Pui Lok Ang (San Diego) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) operating as an NR-Light UE may repeat transmissions of uplink signals such as a random access (RA) message (Msg) 3 on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) during a random access channel (RACH) procedure. The UE may receive a random access response (RAR) message including a RAR uplink (...