ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,776, issued on April 29, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (New Teck Park, Singapore).

"Method and apparatus for a two-step random access procedure" was invented by Hyejung Jung (Northbrook, Ill.), Joachim Lohr (Wiesbaden, Germany), Vijay Nangia (Woodridge, Ill.), Prateek Basu Mallick (Dreieich, Germany), Ravi Kuchibhotla (Chicago), Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart (Darmstadt, Germany) and Robert T. Love (Barrington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one common PUCCH resource set configuration can be received (1310) for a 2-step random access procedure. At least one common PUCCH resource set ca...