ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,332, issued on July 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Energy-efficient beam-group random access" was invented by Ali Esswie (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio network node may configure a user equipment with reduced-capability connection information usable to facilitate establishing a connection with the node during a discontinuous receive off period. From the reduced-capability connection information, the user equipment may determine a beam group. During discontinuous receive off operation at the node, the user equipment may transmit an emergency preamble according to the beam group, which...