ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,675, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Random access method and apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Wei Hong (Beijing) and Ming Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A random access method performed by a terminal includes: recording association information related to a random access process of attempting to access a base station during the random access process; and reporting the association information to the base station after establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with the base station."

The patent was filed on July 17, 2020, under Application...