ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,996, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Two-step random access channel procedure" was invented by Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Muhammad Nazmul Islam (Littleton, Mass.), Jianghong Luo (Skillman, N.J.), Naeem Akl (Somerville, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may receive a first message associated with initiating a random access channel (RACH) procedure. The network node may communicate one or more second messages associated wi...