ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,182, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Apparatus and method for prioritization of random access in a multi-user wireless communication system" was invented by Rojan Chitrakar (Singapore), Yoshio Urabe (Nara, Japan), Lei Huang (Singapore) and Michael Hong Cheng Sim (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the prioritization of devices taking part in a multi-user random access wireless communication. Based on some known conditions, devices that comply with the conditions are given preferential treatment during the random access peri...