ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,472, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Network entity, user equipment and method" was invented by Yuxin Wei (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Vivek Sharma (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Hideji Wakabayashi (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Yassin Aden Awad (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network entity for a mobile telecommunications system, including circuitry configured to perform an admission control of a received connection request to the mobile telecommunications system, wherein the admission control is performed based on a plurality of admission control layers."

The patent was ...