ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,379, issued on June 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Framework for two-step random access channel procedure in wireless communications" was invented by Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Wei Zeng (San Diego), Yuqin Chen (Shenzhen, China), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Beijing), Haitong Sun (Irvine, Calif.), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Yakun Sun (San Jose, Calif.) and Yuchul Kim (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may wirelessly transmit a physical RACH, and a first message on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), in a first step of a 2-step random access channel...