ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,410, issued on March 3, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Aperiodic system information broadcast" was invented by Johan Rune (Lidingo, Sweden), Helka-Liina Maattanen (Espoo, Finland), Chao He (Sollentuna, Sweden) and Emre Yavuz (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a wireless device (110b, 110c) comprises receiving (612) system information (SI) broadcast from a network node, the SI broadcast received according to an aperiodic configuration. In particular embodiments, the aperiodic configuration comprises an initial period followed by a subsequent period, wherein a frequency...