ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,324, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Physical random access channel occasions for transmitting physical uplink shared channel repetition requests" was invented by Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego), Kexin Xiao (Shanghai) and Gokul Sridharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

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 transmit a physical random access channel (PRACH) message corresponding to a PRACH occasion, wherein the PRACH occasion comprises a dedicated PRACH occasion or one of a plurality of PRACH occasions co...