US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 4 for "Methods and devices for reduced capability" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,403, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Methods and devices for reduced capability" was invented by Samuli Heikki Turtinen (Oulu, Finland) and Jussi-Pekka Koskinen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for device capability indication. A terminal device obtains a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) comprising a MAC subheader. The MAC subheader comprises a reduced capability (RedCap) bit for indicating that the terminal device supports enhanced RedCap. The terminal device transmits the MAC PDU to a netw...