ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,698, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Air-to-ground dedicated random access channel configuration design for wireless air-to-ground communications" was invented by Kangqi Liu (San Diego), Qiaoyu Li (Beijing), Chao Wei (Beijing) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

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 base station, an indication of an air-to-ground (ATG) dedicated random access channel (RACH) configuration. The UE may communicate with the base station based at least in part on the ATG ...