ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,343, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for providing operator specific service" was invented by Sujung Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Duckey Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jonghan Park (Bucheon-si, South Korea), Youngsun Ryu (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Kangjin Yoon (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyewon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Convergence of a 5th-Generation communication system supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation system(s) with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT) may be applied to intelligent services. Operator specifi...