US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on June 16 for "Random access confusion avoidance" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,819, issued on June 16, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Random access confusion avoidance" was invented by Panagiotis Spapis (Munich), Umur Karabulut (Munich), Ahmad Awada (Munich), Sanjay Goyal (Denville, N.J.), Ali Karimidehkordi (Munich) and Halit Murat Gursu (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment apparatus (UE) includes processor(s) and memory storing instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor(s), cause the UE to: prepare for timing advance (TA) acquisition for a candidate target cell; prepare for handover to the candidate target cell; identify at least one contention-...