ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,064, issued on July 29, was assigned to Metapex Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and UE for starting 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: receiving a REGISTRATION ACCEPT message or a CONFIGURATION UPDATE COMMAND message including on-demand Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (NSSAI) and a slice deregistration inactivity timer. The on-demand NSSAI may include one or more on-demand single NSSAIs (S-NSSAIs)...