ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,992, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Device and method for processing slice-based system access configuration information in wireless communication system" was invented by Hyunjeong Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soenghun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Anil Agiwal (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sangyeob Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G communication system, such as LTE. The present disclosure relates to a wireless communicatio...