ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,589, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Transmission device, reception device, transmission method, and reception method using random access preamble" was invented by Takashi Iwai (Ishikawa, Japan), Tomofumi Takata (Ishikawa, Japan), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tetsuya Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a terminal that can carry out a random-access process appropriately. A terminal (100) is provided with: a wireless transmission unit (108) that transmits a data signal; and a control unit (101) th...