ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,773, issued on April 29, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Accessing a communication channel by multiple user devices at the same time" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Kao-Peng Chou (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Granting access to a communication channel for several user devices by a base station includes receiving, from at least a first and second user device, at least a first request to access the communication channel and a second request to access the communication channel (1202), the first request including a first random access preamble and a first payload, and the second...