ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,921, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Subscription selection for manual SNPN hosting network selection" 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 subscription selection for manual SNPN hosting network selection is proposed. When a UE supports accessing NPN, the UE has a 1st SNPN/PLMN subscription for accessing a selected SNPN as hosting network for localized services. If the selected SNPN is associated with validity information and validity criteria are met, the UE can register to the selected SNPN using the 1st su...