US Patent Issued to MEDIATEK SINGAPORE on Sept. 8 for "Handling periodic PLMN search during unavailability period" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,898, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Handling periodic PLMN search during unavailability period" was invented by Marko Niemi (Oulu, Finland).

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 activates an unavailability period. The UE postpones one or more periodic attempts to perform a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) search when the UE is in the unavailability period. The unavailability period may be activated by transmitting, to a network, a requ...