ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,540, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for supporting operator-specific service in wireless access network" was invented by Junhyuk Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeongyeob Oak (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Chungkeun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in an apparatus configured to use an interface between a radio access network intelligent controller (RIC) and a node including a base station operates in a radio access network; comprises: generating first information associated with an RIC service; generating second information in...