ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,987, issued on June 16, was assigned to 1FINITY Inc. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Random access method and apparatus and resource configuration method and apparatus" was invented by Guorong Li (Beijing), Pengyu Ji (Beijing), Jian Zhang (Beijing) and Xin Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A random access method and apparatus and resource configuration method and apparatus. The random access apparatus includes: a third receiving unit configured to, on a physical random access channel resource, receive a random access preamble transmitted by a terminal equipment; wherein the random access preamble is used to indicate that the terminal ...