Nokia has declared over 2,000 patent families to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) as essential for the 5G standard. The company said it played a leading role in contributing technologies to 5G, working with the 3GPP organisation to create 5G standards and enabling the rollout of 5G networks.
Nokia had a key role in driving the first set of globally interoperable 5G standards to completion with 3GPP Release 15, and is now contributing towards the next set of standards, Release 16. Nokia said it ensured a 5G standard which could be easily implemented and enable faster initial deployments.
Nokia’s 2,000th patent family declared for 5G includes US patent US9,338,785B2 and European patent EP2848055B1, describing an invention which provides network resources for smartphones, industrial devices and other equipment with different functionalities and expectations to access services with shorter latency, increased reliability and higher throughput. The inventors are based at Nokia Bell Labs in Aalborg, Denmark.
With the latest declarations, the portfolio of Nokia mobile standard essential patents (SEPs) declared to one or more of the 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G standards spans more than 2,700 patent families. The Nokia Technologies business manages and licences the Nokia patent portfolio, with more than 150 licensees including most major smartphone vendors.
