ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,958, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus retrieving and selecting server for terminal authentication and subscriber data transmission" was invented by Kisuk Kweon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangjun Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jungshin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngkyo Baek (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sangsoo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to: a communication technique merging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system; and a...