ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,414, issued on March 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for dual active protocol stack (DAPS) handover in next generation mobile communication system" was invented by Donggun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taehyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Soenghun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a communication technique merging IoT technology with a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution...