ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,951, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for managing prohibited PLMN list during disaster roaming, and apparatus 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: "Provided are a method for managing a prohibited PLMN list during disaster roaming, and an apparatus supporting same. User Equipment (UE) determines, when there is no available public land mobile network (PLMN) other than PLMNs included in a first list, whether the PLMNs included in the first list can pro...