ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,203, issued on July 1, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Access procedures in wireless communications" was invented by Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.) and Kai Xu (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications for access procedures are described. One or more messages may indicate request for information regarding an access procedure, such as a random access procedure. Based on the request, a wireless device may transmit one or m...