ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,324, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for controlling access in next generation mobile communication system" was invented by Sangbum Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Donggun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Alexander Sayenko (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyuk Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungri Jin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Soenghun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method to apply 5G communication systems to IoT networks is provided. The apparatus includes technologies, such as a sensor network, machine type communication (MT...