ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,766, issued on June 10, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Structure of message from user equipment to base station in two-step random access" was invented by Emad Farag (Flanders, N.J.), Frank Frederiksen (Klarup, Denmark) and Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Gistrup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique of performing a RACK procedure includes a framework for a two-step RACK in which a first message (MsgA) from the UE to the gNB has data carrying resources (i.e., PUSCH) is organized into a time-frequency array defined by a mapping to a plurality of preambles. Such a two-step RACK has less latency tha...