ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,952, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CHINA TELECOM CORPORATION LIMITED (Beijing).

"Method for enabling a terminal to access a base station, and base station, terminal and communication system" was invented by Bowen Cai (Beijing), Weiliang Xie (Beijing), Hua Zhang (Beijing) and Han Guo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for enabling a terminal to access a base station. The method includes: broadcasting, by a first BS not supporting a shared carrier, a first priority list, wherein the first priority list comprises information indicating that a priority of a BS that does not support t...