ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,908, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication system" was invented by Chadi Khirallah (Surrey, Great Britain), Jagdeep Ahluwalia Singh (Surrey, Great Britain) and Sadafuku Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are disclosed for controlling whether a user equipment (UE) is allowed to access a cell of a closed access group (CAG) when the CAG is selected manually by a user of the UE."

The patent was filed on April 7, 2021, under Application No. 17/626,848.

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