ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,370, issued on March 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for reducing terminal processing load due to integrity protection or verification procedure in next-generation mobile communication system" was invented by Donggun 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 that merges IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rates than 4G systems; and a system therefor The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services...