US Patent Issued to BLACKPIN on Nov. 11 for "Method and apparatus for base station to control cell access of reduced capability terminal in mobile wireless communication system" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,010, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to BLACKPIN INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for base station to control cell access of reduced capability terminal in mobile wireless communication system" was invented by Soenghun Kim (Hanam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for accessing a NR cell in a mobile communication system are provided. Method for accessing a NR cell includes receiving in a first cell, by a terminal from a base station, a Master Information Block (MIB) and a System Information Block1 (SIB1), determining, by the terminal, if the first cell is barred and performing by the...