ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,255, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Device capability identifier signaling" was invented by Yuan Gao (Shenzhen, China) and He Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques for device capability identifier signaling are presented. One example method of wireless communication includes receiving, by a wireless device from a network node, a request for a capability identifier of the wireless device that identifies capabilities of the wireless device and transmitting, in response to the request, the capability identifier or detailed capabilities."

The patent was filed on July 2...