ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,441, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies OY (Espoo, Finland).

"System information acquisition for reduced capability NR devices" was invented by Jussi-Pekka Koskinen (Oulu, Finland), Samuli Turtinen (Ii, Finland) and Ilkka Antero Keskitalo (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for system information acquisition for reduced capability NR devices may include a UE device which is caused to, acquire first system information from a first cell, the first system information being applicable to a system information area; enter a sleep state of ...