ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,236, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"UE capability reporting" was invented by Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE). The UE performs at least one of: reporting, to a base station (BS), a UE capability related to port selection codebooks, in accordance with a determination that an active bandwidth part (BWP) has less than a threshold number of ...