US Patent Issued to NEC on March 25 for "Radio terminal, radio access network node, and method therefor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,421, issued on March 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radio terminal, radio access network node, and method therefor" was invented by Hisashi Futaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio terminal (2) attempts to receive a second message of a 2-step random access procedure after transmitting a first message of the 2-step random access procedure. In response to successfully receiving the second message of the 2-step random access procedure and determining that the second message explicitly or implicitly indicates a fallback to a 4-step random access procedure, the radio terminal (2) further attempts to receive a control...