US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on March 18 for "Method and apparatus for random access procedure" (Swedish, Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,439, issued on March 18, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for random access procedure" was invented by Zhipeng Lin (Nanjing, China), Jan Christoffersson (Lulea, Sweden) and Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, Texas).

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 at a user equipment (UE) comprises selecting a synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SSB) with a signal measured metric satisfying a criterion. The method further comprises transmitting a first message includi...