ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,592, issued on May 20, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication terminal, network device, communication method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Hironori Ito (Tokyo), Anand Raghawa Prasad (Tokyo), Andreas Kunz (Heidelberg, Germany), Sivabalan Arumugam (Tamil Nadu, India), Sivakamy Lakshminarayanan (Tamil Nadu, India) and Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran (Tamil Nadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication terminal (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a control unit (12) configured to, in a case of a movement from a communication area formed by the 5GS to a communication area ...