ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,415, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for supporting network optimization in next-generation mobile communication system" was invented by Sangbum Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soenghun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sangyeob Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a communication technique that merges IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rates than 4G systems, and a system for same. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, sm...