ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,201, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Access procedure resource configuration" was invented by Nazanin Rastegardoost (McLean, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.) and Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station and/or a wireless device may communicate for an access procedure. One or more uplink channel resources of an access procedure of a first type may be reserved and/or guaranteed for one or more uplink transmissions. One or more downlink symbols may not be configured for the one or more uplink channel resources."

The...