ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,075, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Random access radio network temporary identifier for higher subcarrier spacing" was invented by Iyab Issam Sakhnini (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication by a user equipment, comprising transmitting, to a network entity, a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble in a random access channel (RACH) occasion (RO) within a RACH slot, generating a random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNT...