ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,370, issued on March 31, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Emergency service and hosting network access restriction" 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 of handling a service request from a UE camped on a CAG cell with emergency PDU session is proposed, where the UE is not authorized to access the current CAG cell. When the UE-maintained CAG related configuration is not synchronized with the NW-maintained CAG related configuration, the UE may try to access a CAG cell and sends a service request, but the NW may determine that...