ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,617, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON ((Publ) Stockholm, Sweden).

"Method and network node of wireless communication network for handling random access" was invented by Xueying Hou (Lund, Sweden), Bo Xu (Taby, Sweden) and Pal Frenger (Linkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and a network node for handling random access in a wireless communication network. The method includes receiving a random access preamble when a first number of receivers are active and a second number of the receivers are inactive, and sending a random access response to the received random access pre...