ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,468, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to KT Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for performing random access procedure for coverage enhancement" was invented by Ki-hyeon Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and an apparatus for performing a random access procedure for coverage enhancement. The method of a user equipment (UE) for performing a random access procedure for coverage enhancement may include transmitting a random access channel preamble (RACH Preamble) for repeated transmission of Msg3 through a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH), receiving a random access resp...