ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,737, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"System and method for beam-based physical random-access" was invented by Mattias Frenne (Uppsala, Sweden), Hakan Andersson (Linkoping, Sweden), Johan Furuskog (Stockholm), Stefan Parkvall (Bromma, Sweden), Henrik Sahlin (Molnlycke, Sweden) and Qiang Zhang (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a wireless device for performing random access to a network node. The method comprises receiving a set of downlink beam-specific reference signals, BRS, from the network node, and determining a preferred BRS based on the received signa...