US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Method to indicate cell support for reduced capability UE" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,114, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method to indicate cell support for reduced capability UE" was invented by Rapeepat Ratasuk (Inverness, Ill.), Nitin Mangalvedhe (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) and David Bhatoolaul (Swindon Wiltshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example aspect of the present invention there is provided apparatus including means for monitoring a physical downlink control channel of a cell for downlink control information; and means for, in response to detecting the downlink control information, determining whether a field of the downlink control ...