US Patent Issued to Kyocera on Sept. 29 for "Minimization of drive test for user equipment devices" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,706, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Kyocera Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Minimization of drive test for user equipment devices" was invented by Henry Chang (San Diego) and Masato Fujishiro (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices are described that utilize the Early Data Transmission (EDT) protocol of 3GPP 5G New Radio for minimization of drive test (MDT) operations. Utilizing EDT for transmission of an MDT log availability indication, reception of an MDT log retrieval request, and/or transmission of MDT log data, reduces the power consumption and the required memory storage of user equipment (UE) devices t...