ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,896, issued on May 6, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Radio access network node, radio terminal, core network node, and method therefor" was invented by Hisashi Futaki (Tokyo) and Sadafuku Hayashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to receiving from a source RAN node (2), on a direct interface (101), a message requesting a handover of a radio terminal (1) from a first network to a second network, a target RAN node (3) receives at least one of slice information and flow information from a core network (5), and controls communication of the radio terminal (1) based on at least one of the slice information and the flo...