ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,501, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Handling of updated CAG configuration" was invented by Yuan-Chieh Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Chia-Lin Lai (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for handling updated NPN configuration received via downlink Non-Access Stratum (DL NAS) signaling from a first non-hosting network is provided. In one embodiment, a UE receives an updated CAG related configuration containing one or more CAG(s) associated with (time) validity information. The UE enters the state PLMN-SEARCH and applies a network selection process with the updated CAG related confi...