ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,111, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for notifying of disaster situation by RAN node, and device supporting same" was invented by Sangmin Park (Seoul, South Korea), Sungduck Chun (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunsook Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for notifying of a disaster situation by a radio access network (RAN) node. When the RAN node detects that a problem in an interface between the RAN node and a core network related to a public land mobile network (PLMN) has occurred, the RAN node stops transmitting a broadcast message currently b...