ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,173, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).
"Network node, user equipment and methods in a radio communications network" was invented by Oscar Ohlsson (Bromma, Sweden), Pontus Wallentin (Linkoping, Sweden), Andreas Hoglund (Solna, Sweden), Olof Liberg (Enskede, Sweden), Paul Schliwa-Bertling (Ljungsbro, Sweden), Tuomas Tirronen (Helsinki) and Johan Bergman (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a network node, for controlling access of a first User Equipment (UE) and a second UE to a cell in a radio communications network is provided. The first UE is of a low comp...