ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,284, issued on April 15, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods, apparatus, and systems for reduced bandwidth for reduced capability WTRUS" was invented by Erdem Bala (East Meadow, N.Y.), Moon Il Lee (Melville, N.Y.) and Janet Stern-Berkowitz (Little Neck, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, architectures and interfaces for receiving system information performed by a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) having reduced capacity, are provided. A method may include any of: receiving a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) transmission of a cell, the PBCH transmission inclu...