ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,494, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Open loop timing control for 2-step RACH" was invented by Jing Lei (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego), Linhai He (San Diego) and Wanshi Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) determines a transmission gap adjustment (TGA) for a first message (msgA) of a 2 step random access channel (RACH) procedure based on measurement of a reference signal transmitted by a base station as well as the radio resource configuration (RRC) configurations for msgA. In other aspects, a base station transmits a system information block (SIB)...