US Patent Issued to Apple on June 30 for "Periodic registration update procedure for non-allowed service areas" (Indian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,086, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Periodic registration update procedure for non-allowed service areas" was invented by Nitin Kuppelur (Bangalore, India), Deepak Dash (Bangalore, India) and Roland Gruber (Sauerlach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) that initiates a periodic update timer, wherein the UE is configured to perform a periodic registration update procedure in response to a periodic update timer expiry event, identifies that the periodic update timer has expired, wherein the periodic update timer expiry event occurs when the UE is out of coverage, selects a ...