ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,322, issued on July 7, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Contention resolution in non-terrestrial networks" was invented by Mohammad Ghadir Khoshkholgh Dashtaki (Burnaby, Canada), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.) and Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device receives one or more configuration parameters indicating a single value for a contention resolution timer. The wireless device starts the contention resolution timer based on an initial transmission of a transport block of a random access (RA) procedure via a non-terrestrial network, where a leng...