ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,509, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for supporting evolving band regulations" was invented by Anatoliy S Ioffe (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daniel Popp (Munich), Sumit Verma (San Diego) and Abhishek Rala (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station sends system information to user equipment based on the user equipment detecting network coverage provided by the base station. The system information may include one or more network signaling flags indicative of a legacy regulation and an updated regulation (or a legacy version of a regulation and an updated version of th...