ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,082, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for identifying user in radio access network communication system" was invented by Junhyuk Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Doohyun Ko (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 and an apparatus for identifying a user in a radio access network (RAN), and a first node in the wireless communication system are provided. The method includes identifying a unique identifier of a UE, identifying a radio access network (RAN) UE ide...