ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,071, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SOFTBANK CORP. (Tokyo).

"Terminal appapatus, base station apparatus, and radio communication method" was invented by Katsunari Uemura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal apparatus executing radio communication with a base station apparatus, the terminal apparatus: transmits a first message, including a random access preamble and identification information of the terminal apparatus, for starting a random access procedure to the base station apparatus; receives a second message, including a random access response to the first message, from the base station apparatus; and selects one ra...