ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,309, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and AMF apparatus for NSAC operation based on UE's actual usage" was invented by Ashok Kumar Nayak (Bangalore, India) and Hoyeon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. Embodiments herein provide a method of an access and mobility management function (AMF). The method includes monitoring whether a user equipment (UE) registered to a network slice establishes a protocol data unit (PDU) session using the network s...