ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,928, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Protecting capability information transfer in a wireless communication network" was invented by Paul Schliwa-Bertling (Ljungsbro, Sweden), Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi (Sollentuna, Sweden), Christofer Lindheimer (Vadstena, Sweden) and Helena Vahidi Mazinani (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device (14) receives, over an access stratum (18), a capability enquiry (24) that requests the wireless device (14) to transmit capability information (22) indicating one or more capabilities of the wireless device (14). After receiving the ...