ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,651, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for activating 5G user" was invented by Jicheol Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jungje Son (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sangsoo Jeong (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sunghoon Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to: a communication technique for converging, with IoT technology, a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond the 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE); and a system the...