US Patent Issued to Ofinno on Dec. 9 for "Two-step random access procedure with discontinuous reception" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,440, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Two-step random access procedure with discontinuous reception" was invented by Mohammad Ghadir Khoshkholgh Dashtaki (Burnaby, Canada), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.) and Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device receives one or more configuration parameters indicating one or more radio network temporary identifiers (RNTIs) to monitor, via downlink control channels, during an active time of DRX operation. The wireless device selects, for transmission of a message-A of a random access procedure...