ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,041, issued on May 6, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for optimized short PRACH preamble detection" was invented by Manuj Mohan Khanra (Bangalore, India) and Ronak Lalwala (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed in at least one processor of a network node includes receiving, from at least one user equipment (UE) over a wireless communication network, a plurality of physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble sequences in the frequency domain. The method further includes determining, in the frequency domain, an average of the received plurality of preamble sequences....