ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,432, issued on March 3, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"User equipment (UE) and communication control method" was invented by Shuichiro Chiba (Sakai City, Japan), Yasuo Sugawara (Sakai City, Japan), Yudai Kawasaki (Sakai City, Japan) and Yoko Kuge (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unit is provided through an application of a disaster condition to a PLMN in 5GS, the unit being for transmitting and/or receiving a notification in a case that a communication service cannot be provided to a UE and for selecting a roaming destination PLMN by the UE. Provided are a procedure to allow the UE to recognize a ...