ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,180, issued on July 28, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Handling for closed access group (CAG) validity no longer met" was invented by Yu-Hsin Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yuan-Chieh Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-Lin Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. In certain configurations, the UE maintains a closed access group (CAG) information list including an entry. The entry includes an allowed CAG list associated with a current PLMN. The allowed CAG list includes one or more CAG IDs. ...