ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,422, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"HARQ procedure for RACH response message in two-step RACH" was invented by Jing Lei (San Diego), Yi Huang (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Linhai He (San Diego), Ruiming Zheng (Beijing), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Joseph Binamira Soriaga (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) procedure for the random access channel (RACH) response message in a two-step RACH procedure. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes sending a RACH messag...