ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,679, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Application interaction for network slicing" was invented by Jiwan Ninglekhu (Royersford, Pa.), Michael Starsinic (Newtown, Pa.), Quang Ly (North Wales, Pa.) and Catalina Mladin (Hatboro, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems are described for improved application interaction for network slicing. A wireless transmit/receive unit may send, to a network node, a registration request including an indication that the WTRU is capable of receiving information associated with a temporal availability of a network slice...