ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,494, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for random access" was invented by Zhipeng Lin (Nanjing Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for random access. The method which may be performed by a terminal device comprises determining a resource overhead for transmission of an uplink shared channel of a message. The message includes data on the uplink shared channel and a random access preamble. The method further comprises transmitting the data on the uplink shared channel of the message to a ne...