ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,607, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for random access" was invented by Qin Mu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A random access method and apparatus. The method is applied to an Internet of Things (IoT) device, and includes: determining a dedicated random access resource, in which the dedicated random access resource is a resource dedicated for the IoT device to initiate a random access; and sending a random access request through the dedicated random access resource."

The patent was filed on June 26, 2019, under Application No. 17/622,731.

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