ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,268, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for handling PLMN selection during disaster condition" was invented by Lalith Kumar (Bangalore, India), Kailash Kumar Jha (Bangalore, India), Samiran Bhowmik (Bangalore, India), Aman Agarwal (Bangalore, India) and Mahmoud Watfa (Staines, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or 6th generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The meth...