ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,744, issued on April 14, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatuses for 2-step random access" was invented by Yuantao Zhang (Dongcheng District, China), Hongmei Liu (Changping District, China), Zhi Yan (Xicheng District, China), Yingying Li (Haidian District, China) and Haiming Wang (Xicheng District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods for a RA. One embodiment of the subject application provides a method performed by a user equipment, comprising receiving configurations from a base station, and associating at least one first preamble for a first type of user equipments (UEs) wit...