ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,932, issued on April 8, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods, devices, and systems for configuring signal resource for physical random access channel" was invented by Juan Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Li Tian (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes methods, systems and devices for configuring signal resource for physical random access channel (PRACH). One method includes configuring, by a base station, signal resource for a PRACH by mapping, by the base station, a PRACH slot pattern with a pattern parameter. Another method includes configuring, by a user equipment, signal resourc...