ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,155, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for improving coverage in wireless communication system" was invented by Donggun Kim (Middlesex, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a 5G communication system or a 6G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes receiving a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) including a MAC control element (CE) indicating at...