ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,880, issued on April 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Allocation of resources for preamble and payload of messages in a 2-step random access (RA) procedure in new radio (NR) systems" was invented by Anthony Lee (San Diego), Seau S. Lim (Swindon, Great Britain), Yongjun Kwak (Portland, Ore.) and Youn Hyoung Heo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Next Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may receive, from a gNB, configuration information related to a 2-step random access (RA) procedure between the UE and the g...