US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Sept. 30 for "Methods and apparatus for coverage enhancement in wireless communication networks" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,787, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and apparatus for coverage enhancement in wireless communication networks" was invented by Diana Maamari (Palatine, Ill.), Brian Classon (Palatine, Ill.) and Philippe Sartori (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by an access node includes sending, by the access node to a user equipment (UE), an indicator indicating use of coverage enhancement technique, the indicator being sent prior to the UE achieving a radio resource control (RRC) connected state with the access node; receiving, by the access node fr...