ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,317, issued on June 23, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for random access indication" was invented by Mingju Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for random access indication. The serving base station sends a random access indication signaling to a terminal. The random access indication signaling is configured to indicate, to the terminal, a target antenna panel and/or a target beam for sending a random access preamble. The terminal receives the random access indication signaling, and determines, according to the random access indication signaling, ...