US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Jan. 27 for "Contention free random access failure" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,203, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Contention free random access failure" was invented by Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.) and Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for random access of a wireless device. A distributed unit (e.g., of a radio access network (RAN) entity) may send an indication of a random access (RA) resource of a cell for a wireless device. The distributed unit may send, to a central unit, an RA failure ind...