ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,280, issued on June 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Random access method and apparatus" was invented by Yongqiang Fei (Shenzhen, China), Juan Zheng (Beijing), Hailong Hou (Beijing) and Chaojun Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A random access method and an apparatus. In one example: A terminal device receives a first wake-up signal, and then determines N random access channel occasions based on a correspondence between the first wake-up signal and the N random access channel occasions. The terminal device determines a first random access channel occasion in the N random access channel occ...