ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,738, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"UE and control apparatus in core network" was invented by Yudai Kawasaki (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication unit for implementing a function for CIOT in a 5GS and a communication unit for implementing a network initiated procedure of changing a state of a User Equipment (UE) are provided. The communication unit enables the funtion for CIOT in the 5GS that supports a configuration update procedure initiated by the network and multiple types of session and service continuity. Additionally, provided is a communication unit for a network initiat...