ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,844, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Cell barring" was invented by Jussi-Pekka Koskinen (Oulu, Finland), Samuli Heikki Turtinen (Oulu, Finland) and Jakub Janusz Bluszcz (Wroclaw, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method performed by a user equipment, the method comprising: supporting at least one of a first reception mode with only one receive (Rx) branch or a second reception mode with at least two Rx branches; detecting, from a network node associated with a cell, at least one of a first barring indication associated with the first reception mode or a second bar-ri...