ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,361, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving physical-layer channel in consideration of priority in wireless communication system" was invented by Taehyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinkyu Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngbum Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seunghoon Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sungjin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jinyoung Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for...