US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on March 17 for "RACH process for antenna-distributed networks" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,430, issued on March 17, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"RACH process for antenna-distributed networks" was invented by Jun Tan (Naperville, Ill.), Nitin Mangalvedhe (Naperville, Ill.), Frederick Vook (Naperville, Ill.), Qiping Zhu (Naperville, Ill.) and William Hillery (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved techniques of include performing random access in an antenna-distributed network include introducing a new parameter, as reduced Tx power indicator, in the RAR of Msg-2 that indicates a reduced total Tx power of all antenna nodes of the antenna-distributed network. When the gNB receive...