ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,157, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for access control of UE through MBSR-UE in communication system" was invented by Lalith Kumar (Bangalore, India), Aman Agarwal (Bangalore, India), Avneesh Tiwari (Bangalore, India) and Kailash Kumar Jha (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for access control of a UE (120) connecting through a Mobile base station relay (MBSR)-UE (122) in a wireless network (1000) by an IAB-Donor gNB (108). The method includes connecting the UE (120) to the IAB-Donor gNB (108) through a first MBSR-UE (122) to receive...