US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Aug. 5 for "Method and apparatus for enhancing coverage of machine type communication (MTC) devices" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,475, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for enhancing coverage of machine type communication (MTC) devices" was invented by Moon-il Lee (Melville, N.Y.), Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz (Little Neck, N.Y.), Nobuyuki Tamaki (Melville, N.Y.), John W. Haim (Baldwin, N.Y.), Pouriya Sadeghi (San Diego), Marian Rudolf (Montreal) and Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are described for a low cost machine-type-communication (LC-MTC) wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to enhance coverage. An example method for physical broa...