ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,314, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Network slice aware cell selection" was invented by Vijay Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.), Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar (Singapore), Cahya A. Masputra (San Jose, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Krisztian Kiss (Hayward, Calif.), Longda Xing (San Jose, Calif.) and Srinivasan Nimmala (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The exemplary embodiments relate to implementing network slice aware cell selection at a user equipment (UE). This may include receiving information indicating that a cell of a network supports a network slice. The UE may identi...