ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,329, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"RACH procedures based upon downlink receive capability level of a user equipment" was invented by Qiaoyu Li (Beijing), Chao Wei (Beijing), Jing Lei (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Hao Xu (Beijing), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Peter Pui Lok Ang (San Diego) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, a UE and BS perform a RACH procedure whereby a preamble sequence group for a preamble is associated with a downlink receive capability of the UE. In another aspect, a UE and BS perform a RACH procedure whereby a preamble sequence gro...