ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,283, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Core network device, communication terminal, communication system, authentication method, and communication method" was invented by Naoaki Suzuki (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Tamura (Tokyo) and Anand Raghawa Prasad (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a core network device being able to efficiently perform secondary authentication to be performed for each network slice. A core network device (10) according to the present disclosure includes an authentication unit (11) configured to perform, during registration processing of registering a communication terminal i...