US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on May 13 for "UE, network node and methods for handling 2-step and 4-step random access procedures" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,408, issued on May 13, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"UE, network node and methods for handling 2-step and 4-step random access procedures" was invented by Jan Christoffersson (Lulea, Sweden) and Min Wang (Lulea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method performed by a UE (101) for handling 2-step and 4-step RA procedures in a communications system (100). The UE (101) transmits a msgA comprising a preamble and a msg3 to a network node (103). The UE (101) applies a 2-step RA procedure when transmitting msgA. Based on a criterion, the UE (101) determines to fa...