ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,185, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Conflict avoidance between random access messages and other transmissions" was invented by Yan Zhou (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Konstantinos Dimou (San Francisco) and Hamed Pezeshki (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Interference between random access channel (RACH) transmissions and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) transmissions may be avoided with a RACH occasion forbidden mask and a dynamic indication of availabil...