ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,347, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Signal transmission methods and apparatuses, nodes, and storage media" was invented by Shuqiang Xia (Shenzhen, China), Feng Xie (Shenzhen, China), Yijian Chen (Shenzhen, China), Bo Dai (Shenzhen, China), Guanghui Yu (Shenzhen, China) and Liujun Hu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal transmission method includes: sending, by a first communication node, system information, where the system information includes configuration information of at least one physical random access channel (PRACH), a PRACH is associated with at least one synchronization ...