ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,017, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"QoS impact mitigation during unavailability of RAN support of network slicing" was invented by Harshal R Mane (San Jose, Calif.), Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar (Singapore), Princewill E Ihuoma (San Diego), Sofheem Mohammed (Santa Clara, Calif.), Pranav Tripathi (San Jose, Calif.), Muthukumaran Dhanapal (San Diego) and FNU Srinivas Kote Narasimhamurthy (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for QoS impact mitigation during unavailability of RAN support of network slicing, e.g., in 5G NR systems and beyond. A UE may determine, whi...