ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,296, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Osaka, Japan).

"Random access response for narrowband physical random access channel preambles with orthogonal cover code multiplexing" was invented by Zhanping Yin (Vancouver, Wash.) and Tomoki Yoshimura (Camas, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internet of things (IoT) non-terrestrial network (NTN) device user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive narrowband physical random access channel (NPRACH) configurations including NPRACH resource configuration, repetition parameters, orthogonal cover code (OCC) multiplexing methods and...