ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,443, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and INHA University Research and Business Foundation (Incheon, South Korea).

"Method and device for cell (re)selection in EFB-based non-terrestrial network" was invented by Young Kil Suh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Ho Jun Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Ui Hyun Hong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Gene Back Hahn (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hyun Jin Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Duk Kyung Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for cell (re)selection in an EFB-based non-terrestrial network ...