ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,389, issued on June 24, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Time-of-arrival determination of a PRACH preamble" was invented by Yang Zhang (Sollentuna, Sweden) and Oskar Mauritz (Johanneshov, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided mechanisms for determining time-of-arrival of a PRACH preamble. A method is performed by a radio access network node. The radio access network node is configured for beamformed communication in a set of beams. The method comprises receiving, from a UE and at a TRP of the radio access network node, a PRACH preamble. The method comprises determining a weight fa...