ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,337, issued on May 27, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Random access method and device" was invented by Jing Xu (Dongguan, China), Zuomin Wu (Dongguan, China) and Weijie Xu (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a random access method and device, and provide a method for data transmission for a terminal device that performs random access using a two-step random access procedure. The method includes: transmitting, by a terminal device, a first preamble and first uplink data to a network device; receiving, by the terminal ...