ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,079, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for spatial setting determination during a random access procedure" was invented by Carmela Cozzo (San Diego), Aristides Papasakellariou (Houston) and Emad N. Farag (Flanders, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for determining spatial settings during a random access procedure. A method for operating a user equipment includes determining a first physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble for transmission in a first PRACH occasion (RO) using a first spatial setting and determining a second ...