ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,171, issued on June 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Random access timeline for a reduced capability device" was invented by Yongjun Kwak (San Diego), Muhammad Nazmul Islam (Littleton, Mass.) and Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first network node may transmit, to a second network node, first information that is indicative of a bandwidth capability of the first network node and a first random access message. The second network node may transmit a second random access message in response to the first random access message and...