US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Sept. 8 for "Identification of reduced capability user equipment" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,797, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Identification of reduced capability user equipment" was invented by Johan Hill (Lund, Sweden), Nafiseh Seyed Mazloum (Lund, Sweden) and Basuki Priyanto (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in a user equipment (10), UE, for progressive identification of the UE (10) as a reduced capability, RedCap, device, the method comprising: transmitting (910), to a wireless network at an initial access procedure, an identification message (81) identifying a RedCap type of the UE and a RedCap profile associated with the RedCap type, wherein the RedCap profi...