ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,146, issued on July 29, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"User equipment and base station participating in prioritized random access" was invented by Rikin Shah (Langen, Germany), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Quan Kuang (Frankfurt, Germany) and Ming-Hung Tao (Langen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a user equipment, with a processor which upon being triggered by a random access events, determines random access transmission parameters to be used by the UE for transmitting a random access message to its base station. At least part ...