ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,370, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method for multiple power class support" was invented by Alexander Sayenko (Munich), Daniel Popp (Munich) and Anatoliy S Ioffe (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein provide various apparatuses and techniques that indicate multiple power classes that user equipment may support to a network. The user equipment may support at least a lower power class (e.g., having a lower maximum transmission power) and a higher power class (e.g., having a higher maximum transmission power) to the network. The user equipment may send indications to the...