ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,931, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Random access associated with buffer status reporting" was invented by Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Mohammad Ghadir Khoshkholgh Dashtaki (Burnaby, Canada), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.) and Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications may comprise one or more random access procedures. A random access procedure may be associated with a buffer status report (BSR). The BSR report may be maintained based on one or more conditions associated with t...