ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,448, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for managing service area for UE in wireless communication system" was invented by Jungshin Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Dongyeon Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for allocating a service area for a flyable user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system and enabling a handover to a base station capable of aviation communication when the UE is m...