ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,178, issued on March 4, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Coverage enhancement in a wireless network" was invented by Basuki Priyanto (Lund, Sweden), Nafiseh Seyed Mazloum (Lund, Sweden) and Johan Hill (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for network access carried out in a User Equipment, UE, the method comprising: acquiring at least one of a plurality of synchronization signals transmitted from a base station, each synchronization signal identifying a synchronization resource usable for identifying an associated access channel resource of a sequence of access channel resources; synchronizing to the base stat...