ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,167, issued on May 12, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for applying logical channel limit in wireless communication system" was invented by Sangkyu Baek (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Soenghun Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data rate than a beyond 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or ...