ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,228, issued on April 21, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Reducing network traffic for UE capability message" was invented by Ryan Patrick Dreiling (Shawnee, Kan.) and Christopher Bailey (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carrier network may provide UE capability message handling with reduced network traffic using a UE capability repository. For example, a Mobility Management Entity (MME) may receive, from a user equipment (UE), a token associated with UE capability information of the UE, transmit, to a UE capability repository, a request for UE capability information of the UE based at least ...