ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,325, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for generating mac format for messaging in a two-step random access procedure" was invented by Seau S. Lim (Swindon, Great Britain), Yujian Zhang (Beijing), Anthony Lee (San Diego), Youn Hyoung Heo (San Jose, Calif.), Gang Xiong (Portland, Ore.) and Sudeep Palat (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for facilitating radio access synchronization. The method includes receiving, from a user equipment (UE) a message having a ...