ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,045, issued on June 16, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).
"Method for disaster roaming" was invented by Wan-Ting Huang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Tsan-Kuang Su (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for disaster roaming includes initiating disaster roaming search by user equipment (UE) if one of following conditions occurs: the UE receives System Information Block (SIB) from a first Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN), the UE receives a message and/or an information element from the first PLMN indicating an occurrence of a disaster or availability of disaster roaming, and the UE determines out...