ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,368, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for transmitting data in a mobile communication system" was invented by Jaehyuk Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soenghun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangbum Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Donggun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seungri Jin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT) is disclosed. The method an...