ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,771, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Telit Cinterion Deutschland GmbH (Munich).

"Method for controlling access to a base station" was invented by Volker Breuer (Boetzow, Germany) and Iavor Antonov (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method to operate a base station of a cellular network, the base station being capable of supporting bandwidth limited operation of user equipments camping on said base station, comprising the step for said base station of broadcasting a set of system information items. The set of system information items additionally comprises a first system information item indicating that camping is...