ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,076, issued on March 24, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Coverage-based robust and efficient random access for fifth generation (5G) networks" was invented by Norberto Amaya-Gonzalez (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for coverage-based robust and efficient random access for 5G networks which uses a higher Aggregation Level (AL) and lower and Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) the larger the Path Loss (PL) between the user equipment (UE) and the base station. To do so, the message preamble of the Random Access Channel (RACH) message received from the UE by the ba...