ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,178, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Adaptive cellular access" was invented by Mads Lauridsen (Gistrup, Denmark) and Jeroen Wigard (Klarup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document discloses a solution for performing a random access procedure. According to an aspect, a method for a terminal device comprises: receiving, from an access node, system information comprising a first random access configuration and at least a second random access configuration; determining, whether a link loss between the terminal device and the access node is increasing or decreasing; if the link loss...