ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,409, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to 1FINITY Inc. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Base station, terminal, and wireless communication system" was invented by Yoshiaki Ohta (Yokohama, Japan) and Tsuyoshi Shimomura (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal capable of performing a random access procedure, the terminal includes a receiver, a controller, and a transmitter. The receiver configured to receive a first signal of the random access procedure from a base station. The controller configured to control a transmission timing at which a second signal of the random access procedure is transmitted according to configuration info...