ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,497, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Intra-rat handover for next generation system" was invented by Jayshree A. Bharatia (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of an access and mobility function (AMF) for state management in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises determining a state of at least one state machine, receiving, from a target access network (AN), an N2 path switch request message based on the state of the at least one state machine, transmitting, to a session management function (SMF), an N11 message, and transmitting, to t...