ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,969, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Method and apparatus for handling artificial intelligence/machine learning functionality or feature (re)configuration in a telecommunications network" was invented by Rudraksh Shrivastava (Erligheim, Germany), Tomoki Yoshimura (Camas, Wash.), Zhanping Yin (Vancouver, Wash.) and Atsushi Ishii (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless terminal which communicates over a radio interface with a radio access network comprises receiver circuitry and processor circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive, over the radio interface from the radi...