ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,346, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Slice-specific security requirement information" was invented by Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran (Friedrichsdorf, Germany), Andreas Kunz (Ladenburg, Germany) and Genadi Velev (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining and enforcing service specific network slice security. One apparatus in a mobile communication network includes processor that performs primary authentication with a mobile communication network and a transceiver that receives a SMC message comprising SSI. The processor app...