ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,490, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for increasing narrowband physical random access channel capacity" was invented by Syed Hashim Ali Shah (San Diego), Ayan Sengupta (San Diego) and Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may perform an access procedure for establishing or reestablishing a connection with a network entity. The UE may transmit, as part of the access procedure, one or more repetitions of a narrowband physical random access channel (NPRACH) preamble to the net...