US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 26 for "Network-controlled disabling of user equipment (UE) radio capabilities" (British, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,991, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Network-controlled disabling of user equipment (UE) radio capabilities" was invented by Haris Zisimopoulos (London), Lenaig Genevieve Chaponniere (La Jolla, Calif.), Sebastian Speicher (Wallisellen, Switzerland) and Rajat Prakash (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. To communicate using non-restricted radio capabilities, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a UE capability message to a network (e.g., via a base station) that indicates a set of radio capabilities that the UE may use to communi...