ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,628, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Permanently disabling a terminal device" was invented by Kenneth James Park (Cathlamet, Wash.) and Atsushi Ishii (Vancouver, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal device of a New Radio (NR) system and a corresponding method performed by the terminal device are provided. The method includes receiving, by RF reception circuitry of the terminal device, from a transmitting device while the terminal device resides in an enabled state or a disabled state, a command to permanently disable the terminal device; and transitioning, in response to receiving the command...