ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,237, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Home network assisted concurrent access to network slices in multiple visited public land mobile networks (VPLMNs)" was invented by Vimal Srivastava (Bangalore, India), Sri Gundavelli (San Jose, Calif.) and Ravi Kiran Guntupalli (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms for use in facilitating home network assisted concurrent access to network slices in multiple visited public land mobile networks (VPLMNs) are described. A control plane (CP) function for mobility management may receive, from a UE (e.g., configured without dua...