ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,592, issued on July 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Core node, base station, radio terminal, communication method, radio resource allocation method, base station selection method, and readable medium" was invented by Mayo Oohira (Tokyo), Masaaki Kosugi (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Tamura (Tokyo) and Yusuke Takano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure aims to provide a core node capable of appropriately allocating a radio resource of a RAN Slice allocated for a specific service to a radio terminal that uses this specific service. A core node (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a determination unit (...