ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,013, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Four-step to two-step random access procedure" was invented by Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Kai Xu (Great Falls, Va.), Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.) and Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device may receive a random access response based on transmitting a first random access preamble, wherein the random access response comprises an uplink grant. The wireless device may transmit, via the uplink grant, a Msg3 message comprising a wireles...