Scientists at IIT Hyderabad and Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT), an R&D society under IIT Madras, have proposed the country’s first 5G patent before an international body.

International body describes global cellular radio standards for different generations of wireless network. US, China, Japan and South Korea are member countries of international body. Two years ago, India also joined this international body.

Inventor Kiran Kuchi, associate professor of IIT Hyderabad (principle inventor of the indigenously-developed waveform technology that forms the backbone feature in the up-link of 5G networks) and co-inventor J Klutto Milleth, chief technologist at CEWiT have developed the technology under a research support project of the Union ministry of electronics and IT.

This is the first patent of technological specification has been presented to the world body for examination. Kiran Kuchi said, using this patent and others in pipeline, India can save huge amounts of money in royalty/licensing fees when 5G is introduced in the country. Right now, for every mobile handset sold in India, the buyer pays a certain amount in royalty and licensing to a patent holder abroad.

And also he said that the patent was presented at a conference held in Spokane in US on April 3 by 3GPP. After getting acknowledgement from international body, the telecom manufacturers will attach the same with the specification.

The Author is a Patent Consultant from MR Technollect Solutions (www.MRTechnollect.com).