ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,879, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Operating method for AUSF and UDM for authentication and authorization for each network slice" was invented by Hyunsook Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One disclosure of the present specification provides an operating method for an authentication server function (AUSF) apparatus. The operating method comprises the steps of: requesting a unified data management (UDM) apparatus for information about a serving access and mobility management function (AMF) apparatus for user equipment (UE); receiving, from the UDM apparatus, informat...