ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,453, issued on July 21, was assigned to Radisys Corp. (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Antenna combining for physical random access channel (PRACH)" was invented by Rahul Joon (Jhajjar, India), Gaurab Basu (Bengaluru, India) and Saptarshi Chaudhuri (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed system and method address the challenge of antenna streams that are compromised and unable to provide accurate PRACH data due to a spectrum of issues, including but not limited to broken antennas. These issues may range from loose connections and damaged antenna elements to open Radio Unit (O-RU) anomalies in open RAN systems, poor channel ...