US Patent Issued to Apple on March 4 for "Network slicing with radio access network (RAN) sharing" (Chinese, German, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,140, issued on March 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Network slicing with radio access network (RAN) sharing" was invented by Fangli Xu (Beijing), Ralf Rossbach (Munich), Sudeep Manithara Vamanan (Nuremberg, Germany), Mona Agnel (Guildford, Great Britain), Krisztian Kiss (Hayward, Calif.), Sarma V. Vangala (Campbell, Calif.), Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata (San Diego), Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Yuqin Chen (Beijing) and Huarui Liang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is described for a base station to generate a first message and a ...