ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,099, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for random access procedure" was invented by Ling Su (Beijing), Johan Axnas (Solna, Sweden), Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, Texas), Zhipeng Lin (Nanjing Jiangsu, China) and David Astely (Bromma, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for random access procedure. A method performed by a terminal device comprises transmitting multiple preambles on different transmission chains of the terminal device to a network node. The multiple preambles are associate...