ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,360, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing method and information processing device" was invented by Yuji Araki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information processing method includes: acquiring, by an information processing device, numerical value information pertaining to an attribute of a network slice, the numerical value information being obtained by converting input information which has been inputted through a user interface; and selecting, by the information processing device, a network slice as a candidate to which a terminal device is to be connected."

The patent was filed o...