ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,876, issued on June 2, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Reporting of system information (SI) hash values" was invented by Mattias Bergstrom (Sollentuna, Sweden), Oscar Ohlsson (Bromma, Sweden) and Pradeepa Ramachandra (Linkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods for a user equipment (UE) operating in a wireless network. Such methods include, while operating in a non-connected state in the wireless network, obtaining system information (SI) broadcast in each of a plurality of cells visited by the UE and, for each of the visited cells, determining one or more SI hash v...