ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,480, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method for allocating resource grant" was invented by Tuomas Tirronen (Helsinki), Andreas Hoglund (Solna, Sweden), Emre Yavuz (Stockholm) and Dung Pham Van (Upplands Vasby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for allocating a resource grant at a network node comprises receiving, from a user equipment (UE), a preamble message; providing, to the UE, at least two uplink resource grants in a system information message, wherein the at least two uplink resource grants have different sizes and are overlapping; and receiving, from the UE, ...