ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,612, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Hosting network manual selection and UE-triggered registration update" was invented by Yuan-Chieh Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Chia-Lin Lai (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of enhanced manual network selection procedure for access localized services in PNI-NPN is proposed. For manual CAG/PNI-NPN selection as hosting network, if a CAG cell in a PLMN broadcasting a CAG-ID is available and included in the (Allowed) CAG-ID list of the UE-stored CAG related configuration of the PLMN, the user may manually select the CAG cell as a suitable cell...