ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,769, issued on April 29, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Back-off for 2-step RA procedure" was invented by Henrik Enbuske (Stockholm), Jan Christoffersson (Lulea, Sweden) and Mats Folke (Vallingby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device configured to perform a 2-step random access, RA, procedure transmits (802) a message according to the 2-step RA procedure, the message comprising a first random access preamble. The wireless device receives (804), during a RA response window following the transmitting of the message, a Medium Access Control, MAC, subheader. Using one or more bits o...