ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,201, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Communication method, communication apparatus, and communication system for updating user equipment identification information" was invented by Junwei Ren (Beijing), Zhigang Wang (Beijing), Ranran Zhang (Beijing), Jian Zhang (Beijing), Chen Wang (Bijing, China) and Yi Zhao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of communication by a core network device includes: receiving a message transmitted by a first access network device, the message including a first identifier of a user equipment (UE), assigning to the UE a second identif...