ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,247, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Random access procedure in multiple transmission and reception points" was invented by Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.) and Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device receives, via a first control resource set (coreset) with a first coreset group index, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) order initiating a random-access procedure. A random-access preamble is transmitted for the random-access procedure. A downli...