ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,339, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink transmissions with repetition during contention-free random access" was invented by Liangping Ma (San Diego), Bharat Shrestha (San Diego), Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego), Umesh Phuyal (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Changhwan Park (San Diego) and Ayan Sengupta (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, a downlink communication that indicates a random access response (RAR) or a fallback RAR, ...