ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,544, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for cell barring in wireless communication system" was invented by Anil Agiwal (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for cell barring in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes determining whether system information block type 1 (SIB1) is acquired from a cell, considering the cell as barred, if the acquiring the SIB1 fails, determining whether the cell is a licensed cell or an unlicensed cell and excluding the cell and other cells on a same frequency with ...