ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,272, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for transmitting contention-based data in non-terrestrial-network-based communication system, and electronic device for performing same" was invented by Seungil Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sunhyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byounghoon Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jungsoo Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a method by which a user equipment (UE) transmits uplink (UL) data to a base station (BS) to handle traffic which occurs in a communication system include...