ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,467, issued on July 8, was assigned to FUJITSU Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Random access method and device and communication system" was invented by Yang Lu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A random access method and device and a communication system. The device includes: a first controller configured to control a terminal equipment to initiate a 2-step random access procedure; and a second controller configured to control the terminal equipment to initiate a non-contention random access procedure or a 4-step random access procedure when the 2-step random access procedure is not completed. The first and second controller may be pr...