ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,929, issued on March 24, was assigned to Pantech Wireless LLC (Cedar Park, Texas).

"Method and apparatus supporting random access transmissions" was invented by Diana Pani (Montreal), Rocco DiGirolamo (Laval, Canada), Christopher R. Cave (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Canada), Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada) and Benoit Pelletier (Roxboro, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) configured for operation in a first state and a second state, the first state being characterized by the WTRU using dedicated logical channels and the second state being characterized by the WTRU not using dedicated ...