ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,682, issued on April 22, was assigned to FUJITSU Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Random access method and apparatus and communication system" was invented by Meiyi Jia (Beijing) and Qinyan Jiang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this disclosure provide a random access method and apparatus and a system. The method includes: a terminal equipment selects (or determines) a first downlink reference signal and/or a second downlink reference signal, there existing a quasi co-location (QCL) relationship between the first downlink reference signal and the second downlink reference signal; and the terminal equipment determines a r...