US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Aug. 25 for "Coverage extension by preamble repetition" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,608, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Coverage extension by preamble repetition" was invented by Faris Alfarhan (Montreal), Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada), Fumihiro Hasegawa (Westmount, Canada), Aata El Hamss (Laval, Canada), Moon Il Lee (Melville, N.Y.) and Virgil Comsa (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and systems for coverage extension. A bundle of repeated transmissions of a preamble are transmitted responsive to a reference signal received power (RSRP) being less than a threshold and a random access (RA) procedure being initiated. A random access...