ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,380, issued on June 24, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Determination of contention resolution timer" was invented by Samuli Turtinen (Ii, Finland) and Chunli Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a solution for determining a contention resolution timer. In an aspect, a first device receives, from a second device, an indication to perform Msg3 transmission. The first device transmits, to the second device, information of the first device for contention resolution. In case a configuration of a 4-step random access channel is unavailable in an active ...