ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,197, issued on July 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Message transmission method and device" was invented by Yuwan Su (Shenzhen, China), Tong Ji (Beijing), Zhe Jin (Beijing) and Weiliang Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Message transmission methods and devices for facilitating random access procedures are disclosed. In an implementation, a method includes: generating first signaling and second signaling, wherein the first signaling indicates at least one of a total quantity of maximum random access attempts or a maximum quantity of random access attempts at a signal coverage enhancemen...