ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,320, issued on July 28, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Random access channel occasion configuration for message 1 repetitions" was invented by Alessio Marcone (Munich), Nhat-Quang Nhan (Massy, France), Amir Mehdi Ahmadian Tehrani (Munich) and Marco Maso (Massy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform determining, by a network device of a communication network, random access channel parameters for random access to the communication network; based on the random access channel parameters, deriving a set of ...