US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on March 18 for "Methods, apparatus and systems for supporting mobile initiated connection only (MICO) wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs)" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,358, issued on March 18, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods, apparatus and systems for supporting mobile initiated connection only (MICO) wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs)" was invented by Guanzhou Wang (Brossard, Canada), Saad Ahmad (Montreal), Behrouz Aghili (Commack, N.Y.) and Ulises Olvera-Hernandez (Saint-Lazare, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus and systems for managing a connection state of a Wireless Transmit/Receive Unit (WTRU) that is in Mobile Initiated Communication Only (MICO) mode are disclosed. One representative method may include the WTRU obtai...