ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,016, issued on June 2, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Random access procedure for latency reduction" was invented by Tuomas Tirronen (Helsinki), Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz (Helsinki), Helka-Liina Maattanen (Helsinki) and Henrik Sahlin (Molnlycke, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments disclose a method in a wireless device. The wireless device receives a location of a time and/or frequency resource of a first Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) from a network node. The wireless device receives a location of a time and/or frequency resource of a second PRACH. Furthermore, the wirel...