ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,375, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for coverage enhancement of Msg3" was invented by Carmela Cozzo (San Diego), Aristides Papasakellariou (Houston) and Ebrahim MolavianJazi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for coverage enhancement of Msg3. A method for operating a user equipment includes receiving a system information block (SIB) that provides information mapping physical random access channel (PRACH) resources to enable or disable repetitions for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission in a random ...