ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,530, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Determination of physical random access channel repetition numbers and associated selection criteria" was invented by Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni (San Diego), Linhai He (San Diego) and Sherif Elazzouni (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 (UE) may receive a system information block type 1 (SIB1). The UE may transmit a physical random access channel (PRACH) transmission based at least in part on one or more of a set of PRACH repetition numbers ...