ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,313, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Random access procedure using secondary cell downlink channel" was invented by Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Yiqing Cao (Beijing), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (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 may determine to initiate a random access procedure for a primary cell; and receive, on a secondary cell of the primary cell, at least one physical down...