ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,824, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Mobile device capability identifier" was invented by Gert Jan Van Lieshout (Staines, Great Britain), Himke Van Der Velde (Staines, Great Britain) and Seonghun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a mobile device in a mobile communication network. The method comprises transmitting a mobile device component identifier to a network node within the mobile communication network. The mobile device component identifier identifies at least one hardware or software component of the mobile device. The mobil...