US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on May 6 for "Method and apparatus for access or RAT restriction" (Chinese, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,934, issued on May 6, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for access or RAT restriction" was invented by Jinyin Zhu (Shanghai), Xiaoming Li (Shanghai) and Jesus Angel de Gregorio Rodriguez (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and apparatus for access or RAT restriction. A method at a first access management entity of a network comprises determining that a user equipment (UE) is using LTE-M radio access technology (RAT). The method further comprises obtaining access restriction or RAT restriction data associated with the UE, wh...