ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,096, issued on July 1, was assigned to Metapex Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and user equipment for locally removing S-NSSAI upon expiry of slice deregistration inactivity timer" was invented by Sang Geun Yu (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment of this specification, there is provided a method performed by a user equipment (UE). The method may comprise: starting a slice deregistration inactivity timer if a handover to other access is successfully completed and if there is no established protocol data unit (PDU) session including any multi access (MA) PDU session associated with a Single N...