ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,587, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Random access procedure for layer 1 and 2 triggered mobility" was invented by Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.) and Gautham Prasad (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises receiving, by a wireless device, a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) order initiating a random access procedure associated with early timing advance acquisition procedure of a layer 1 and/or 2 triggered mobility (LTM) procedure. The method fur...