ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,049, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"User equipment (UE) and communication control method" was invented by Yasuo Sugawara (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A User Equipment (UE) includes a controller. In a case of connection to a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) service via a Stand-alone Non-Public Network (SNPN) by using 3GPP access, the controller does not operate in an SNPN access mode over non-3GPP access."

The patent was filed on June 23, 2021, under Application No. 18/012,835.

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