ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,315, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Partial random access channel procedure" was invented by Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Lorenzo Ferrari (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Yih-Hao Lin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a serving BS of a UE may transmit a PDCCH communication to the UE. The PDCCH communication triggers a partial RACH procedure, whereby a RACH transmission is performed. In some designs, the RACH transmission is for positioning, and positioning measurements are performed at the serving BS and ...