ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,401, issued on May 13, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Apparatus, system and method for performing two-step RACH" was invented by Joseph M. Murray (Schwenksville, Pa.), Pascal M. Adjakple (Great Neck, N.Y.), Lakshmi R. Iyer (King of Prussia, Pa.), Mohamed Awadin (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.), Patrick Svedman (Stockholm), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Allan Y. Tsai (Boonton, N.J.), Yifan Li (Conshohocken, Pa.), Rocco Di Girolamo (Laval, Canada), Zhuo Chen (Claymont, Del.) and Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first apparatus in a wireless communication system, the fir...