ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,529, issued on March 17, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Contention resolution in random access procedure" was invented by Samuli Turtinen (Ii, Finland) and Chunli Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to contention resolution in random access procedure. A first device transmits to a second device a random access request comprising a first identification of the first device. The first device receives a response to the random access request from the second device. The response comprises a second identification from the second device for the first device and co...