ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,404, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for service using tethering in wireless communication system" was invented by Jaehyeon Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Youngkyo Baek (Suwon-si, 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. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a policy control function (PCF) entity in a wireless communication system comprises a transceiver and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to update a service...