ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,966, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for controlling access of terminal to private network" was invented by Jungshin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangjun Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngkyo Baek (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yoonseon Han (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a communication technique that combines IoT technology with a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE), and to ...