ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,373, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for area management in an NTN" was invented by Kyeongin Jeong (Allen, Texas) and Nishithkumar D. Tripathi (Parker, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for area management in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a UE comprises: receiving a first neighboring cell list and a second neighboring cell list; determining a priority between an NTN and a TN; and prioritizing the first neighboring cell list or the second neighboring cell list in a cell selection or reselection operation...