US Patent Issued to Sharp on June 16 for "Methods and apparatus for reduced capability signaling in a 5G NR system" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,724, issued on June 16, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Methods and apparatus for reduced capability signaling in a 5G NR system" was invented by Kamel M. Shaheen (Vancouver, Wash.), Kai Ying (Vancouver, Wash.) and John Michael Kowalski (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes transmitting circuitry configured to send a low-capability indication that indicates reduced capabilities of the UE to a 5G New Radio (NR) network. In some examples, multiple low-capability indications may be sent to indicate capabilities of the UE to the 5G NR network. In other exampl...