ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,692, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for time-domain PRACH resource determination in wireless communication" was invented by Huaning Niu (Cupertino, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (Cupertino, Calif.), Sigen Ye (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.), Weidong Yang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and apparatus to enhance RACH transmission for beyond 52.6 GHz communications. A Physical Random A...