ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,285, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) Co. LTD. (Shanghai).
"Method and apparatus for identifying reduced capability user equipment type, base station, and user equipment" was invented by Sicong Zhao (Shanghai) and Zhenzhu Lei (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for identifying a reduced capability (RedCap) user equipment (UE) type, a base station, and a UE. The method includes broadcasting random access channel (RACH) configuration information, comprising a proportion parameter of available RACH occasion (RO) resources for different RedCap UE types, of RedCap UEs in ...