ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,466, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Random access procedures with preamble repetitions" was invented by Gautham Prasad (Herndon, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.) and Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device may initiate communications with a base station using one or more random access procedures. Different random access procedures may be associated with a different quantity of preamble repetitions and/or different reference signals. Based on a determination that a random ac...