ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,631, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for managing tracking area update in next-generation satellite communication system" was invented by Sangyeob Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Soenghun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method performed by a terminal operating in a stand-alone non-public network (SNPN) connection mode in a communication system. The method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) release message including reservation configuration inf...