ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,668, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Random access resource configuration in different bandwidth parts for two-step random access" was invented by Jan Christoffersson (Lulea, Sweden), Jonas Sedin (Sollentuna, Sweden), Johan Rune (Lidingo, Sweden) and Henrik Enbuske (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided to enable use of more than two preamble group Bs during random access (RA) for connected UEs. This flexibility is achieved by configuring the active BWP to overlap with the 2-step RA resources on the initial BWP, configuring different sizes of preamble gr...