US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on April 7 for "Reservation of FDD frequencies for reduced capability devices" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,592, issued on April 7, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Reservation of FDD frequencies for reduced capability devices" was invented by Ming Shan Kwok (Seattle), Wafik Abdel Shahid (Kenmore, Wash.), Egil Gronstad (Encinitas, Calif.) and Alejandro Aguirre-Rivadeneyra (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for connecting reduced capability (redcap) and frequency division duplex (FDD)-only mobile devices to FDD frequency bands of an access network are described. A mobile device may determine an indicator that the mobile device is a redcap or FDD-only device and provide mobile device capa...