US Patent Issued to KDDI on Feb. 24 for "Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, control method, and computer-readable storage medium for coverage expansion in random access procedure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,603, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to KDDI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, control method, and computer-readable storage medium for coverage expansion in random access procedure" was invented by Takeo Ohseki (Fujimino, Japan), Junya Yamazaki (Fujimino, Japan) and Kosuke Yamazaki (Fujimino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal apparatus specifies, based on capability information of the terminal apparatus, one of a first resource with which an apparatus that is not capable of performing repeated transmission of a message 3 in a four-step random access procedure in consecutive slots can transmit ...