US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 2 for "Selection of slice-supporting PLMNs while roaming away from home network" (Singaporean, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,074, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Selection of slice-supporting PLMNs while roaming away from home network" was invented by Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar (Singapore), Vijay Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.), Rohit R. Matolia (Surat, India), Krisztian Kiss (Hayward, Calif.) and Srinivasan Nimmala (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) may receive a list of Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMNs) that support a given network slice in a given country, different from a home country of a home PLMN of the UE. When roaming in the given country, UE may access a PLMN of the list if t...