ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,568, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for random access" was invented by Zhipeng Lin (Nanjing, China), Andres Reial (Lomma, Sweden) and Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for random access. The method which may be performed by a terminal device comprises performing a first transmission of a message from the terminal device to a network node in a random access procedure, according to first configuration information. The first transmission of the message comprises ...