US Patent Issued to MediaTek on June 16 for "Non-access stratus (NAS) signaling connection handling for public land mobile network (PLMN) selection" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,906, issued on June 16, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Non-access stratus (NAS) signaling connection handling for public land mobile network (PLMN) selection" was invented by Yu-Hsin Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Yuan-Chieh Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of NAS signaling connection handling when a UE initiates a de-registration or detach procedure to perform network selection is proposed. To allow the UE to perform PLMN selection, the UE needs to be in idle mode. Upon the completion of a UE-initiated de-registration or detach procedure, the UE starts a guard timer, e.g., T3540/T3440...