US Patent Issued to Ofinno on June 2 for "Coverage enhancement for random access procedures" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,207, issued on June 2, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Coverage enhancement for random access procedures" was invented by Kai Xu (Great Falls, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.) and Nazanin Rastegardoost (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device transmits a preamble based on a first spatial filter. The wireless device receives an uplink grant indicating transport block (TB) repetitions and a reference signal (RS). The wireless device transmits, based on the first spatial filter, first repetitions of the TB repetitio...