US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on March 18 for "Methods and apparatus for transmitting capability information" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,977, issued on March 18, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Methods and apparatus for transmitting capability information" was invented by Christofer Lindheimer (Vadstena, Sweden), Tomas Frankkila (Lulea, Sweden) and Malik Wahaj Arshad (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device according to one or more embodiments receives a request from a base station for capability information, with the wireless device transmitting the capability information in segments, responsive to the request indicating that the base station supports a protocol that utilizes segmentation for reporting the capa...