ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,974, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to BLACKPIN INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for reduced capability terminal to access a cell 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 System Information Block1 (SIB1), determining, by the terminal, if the first cell is barred and performing by the terminal random access procedure based at least in part on...