ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,064, issued on March 24, was assigned to AIRSPAN IP HOLDCO LLC (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Techniques relating to random access in a wireless communications network" was invented by Andrew Logothetis (High Wycombe, Great Britain) and Venkateswarlu Katepalli (Slough, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a wireless communications system comprising a user device and a base station, the base station periodically broadcasts system information which is used by the user device in a random access procedure to connect to the base station. The base station grants uplink resource to the user device for sending a connection request message....