US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 14 for "Communication system and methods that adapt RRC procedures to a 5G network implementing network slicing" (British, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,952, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication system and methods that adapt RRC procedures to a 5G network implementing network slicing" was invented by Sivapathalingham Sivavakeesar (Surrey, Great Britain) and Sadafuku Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system is disclosed in which a number of procedures may be performed between user equipment, a base station, and/or the core network in the context of network slicing. The procedures support, for example efficient configuration of paging areas, roaming, access restriction, mobility, setting up of dual mode connectivity, connectio...