US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Aug. 12 for "Method and apparatus for system information block (SIB) acquisition for wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUS) in non-CE and coverage enhanced (CE) modes" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,310, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for system information block (SIB) acquisition for wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUS) in non-CE and coverage enhanced (CE) modes" was invented by Moon-il Lee (Melville, N.Y.), Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz (Little Neck, N.Y.), Samian Kaur (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.) and Diana Pani (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are described. A method includes determining whether the apparatus is in a coverage enhancement (CE) mode or a non-CE mode. The method further includes receiving a CE-system informati...