ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,284, issued on March 4, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Method for 2-step random access and terminal" was invented by Peng Sun (Chang'an Dongguan, China), Xiaohang Chen (Chang'an Dongguan, China) and Hao Liu (Chang'an Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this disclosure provide a method for 2-step random access and a terminal. The method includes: receiving one or more pieces of configuration information for 2-step random access; and determining a transmission resource and/or a transmission mode based on the configuration information and assistance uplink transmission i...