ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,999, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Signaling to indicate locations of dedicated random access channel region in time domain" was invented by Linhai He (San Diego), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Bilal Sadiq (Southlake, Texas), Juergen Cezanne (Ocean Township, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Muhammad Nazmul Islam (Littleton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A node (e.g., a base station or network entity) may identify a signal that provides an indication of a location of a contention free random access channel (...