ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,627, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for cell initial access and paging in wireless cellular communication system" was invented by Jeongho Yeo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Youngbum Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Donghan Kim (Osan-si, South Korea), Yongjun Kwak (Yongin-si, South Korea), Taehyoung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Juho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Younsun Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Seunghoon Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sungjin Park (Incheon, South Korea), Jinyoung Oh (Seoul, South Korea) and Youngwoo Kwak (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trade...