ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,498, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for acquiring communication services" was invented by Anikethan Ramakrishna Vijaya Kumar (Bangalore, India), Kundan Tiwari (Bangalore, India) and Lalith Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method disclosed herein includes registering, by a UE, with a same PLMN over a 3GPP access and a non-3GPP access. The method includes receiving, by the UE, a notification message from a CN of the PLMN over the non-3GPP access, in response to at least one communication service pending to be delivered to the UE over...