ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,840, issued on May 20, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for random access resource configuration and resource selection and performing random access channel" was invented by Zhihong Qiu (Shenzhen, China), He Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Xiaojuan Shi (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, systems and devices for improved random access resource configuration and resource selection in a random access procedure. Multiple common resource pools are configured to increase random access resource capacity."

The patent was filed on Sept. 20, 2021, under Application No. 17/479,699.

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