ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,284, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for signaling RAN-assisted codec adaptation capabilities in IMS multimedia telephony sessions" was invented by Ozgur Oyman (Palo Alto, Calif.), Thomas Luetzenkirchen (Taufkirchen BY, Germany), Sudhir Shankar Pola (Bangalore, India) and Usharani Ayyalasomayajula (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are apparatus and method for signal RAN-assisted codec adaptation capabilities via IMS. An apparatus for a UE includes a RF interface to receive an SDP offer message from the remote UE, the SDP offer message including ...