ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,734, issued on March 11, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (New Tech 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: "A command can be received (910) from a network entity. The command can initiate a random access procedure and can include information of a type of random...