ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,404, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Method and apparatus for random access on a wireless communication network" was invented by Hyejung Jung (Palatine, Ill.), Vijay Nangia (Woodridge, Ill.), Ravikiran Nory (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Joachim Lohr (Wiesbaden, Germany), Prateek Basu Mallick (Langen, Germany), Ravi Kuchibhotla (Gurnee, Ill.) and Robert Love (Barrington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio resource control message comprising an indication of a random access channel preamble, a reference signal resource, or both can be received. A reference signal can be received on the reference sig...