ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,605, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to FutureWei Technologies Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"System and method for network access" was invented by Jialing Liu (Palatine, Ill.), Qian Cheng (Naperville, Ill.) and Weimin Xiao (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes a user equipment (UE) receiving, from a first transmission reception point (TRP) on a first carrier, a synchronization signal (SS) and at least a physical broadcast channel (PBCH). The UE performs a random access channel (RACH) procedure with a second TRP on a second carrier in accordance with configuration information from at least the PBCH. The UE on...