ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,604, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Enhancement to system information block (SIB) validity check for non-public networks (NPNs)" was invented by Vinay Joseph (Calicut, India), Masato Kitazoe (Tokyo) and Rajat Prakash (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for operating a user equipment (UE) in a next generation (NG) radio access network (RAN) (NG-RAN) to validate a system information block (SIB) for non-public networks (NPNs). In one aspect, a UE receiving a SIB-one (SIB1) from a ...