ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,418, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Unavailability period support associated with congestion" was invented by Anuj Sethi (Ottawa), Michael Starsinic (Newtown, Pa.), Saad Ahmad (Montreal) and Ulises Olvera-Hernandez (Saint-Lazare, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (e.g., a WTRU, network device, such as a device comprising an access and mobility function (AMF)) may perform one or more of the following actions. The device may send a registration request via non-access stratus signaling. The registration request may include a first duration. The device may receive a re...