US Patent Issued to Apple on March 18 for "Network access by a reduced capability user equipment" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,425, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Network access by a reduced capability user equipment" was invented by Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) may attempt to access a base station of a network. The UE receives, from the base station of a wi...