ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,406, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method of transmitting and receiving message 3 protocol data unit" was invented by Anil Agiwal (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Soenghun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology ...