ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,148, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Methods and apparatus for random access with contention resolution message repetition" was invented by Jung Hyun Bae (San Diego), Mohammed Karmoose (San Diego) and Yaser Mohamed Mostafa Kamal Fouad (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include sending a contention resolution message for a random access procedure from a user equipment (UE) through a physical uplink channel in a wireless communication network, and sending a repetition of the contention resolution message from the UE through the physical uplink channel. The physical upl...