US Patent Issued to Apple on March 24 for "Base station operations for reduced capability user equipment" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,075, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Base station operations for reduced capability user equipment" was invented by Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station of a network may bar access to certain types of user equipment (UE). The base station broadcasts...