ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,309, issued on July 28, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus of performing slice specific random access procedure by user equipment in wireless communication system" was invented by Hanseul Hong (Seoul, South Korea), Sunyoung Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Sunghoon Jung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of transmitting a Random Access (RA) preamble by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. Especially, the method includes the steps of receiving information related to at least two RA resource sets including a first RA...