ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,311, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for repeated random access preamble transmission and reception in wireless communication system" was invented by Seunghoon Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jinkyu Kang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Taehyoung Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Youngbum Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G system, and a system therefor. The pres...