US Patent Issued to Ofinno on July 22 for "Access information for closed access groups" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,105, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Access information for closed access groups" was invented by Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Jinsook Ryu (Oakton, Va.), Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.) and Weihua Qiao (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station central unit sends, to a base station distributed unit, a request message for a context configuration of a wireless device, wherein the request message comprises a field indicating that the wireless device is only allowed to access a cell that is associated with at least one closed access group. The base station...