ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,151, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, communication system, and communication method in a two-step random access procedure" was invented by Tomoya Ohara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal including: a control unit configured to determine a position of a PUSCH resource to be used in a first step in a two step random access procedure based on a relative position with respect to a position of a preamble resource; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a message of the first step using the preamble resource and the PUSCH resource."

The patent was filed on Aug. 19, 2019, under ...