ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,847, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Downlink radio resource control message transmission in 2-step random access" was invented by Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Beijing), Yuqin Chen (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Wei Zeng (San Diego) and Haitong Sun (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform 2-step random access procedures. The disclosure identifies techniques for transmitting and receiving downlink connection configuration information, such as a radio resource control message, in a 2-step random access procedure."...