US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 30 for "Radio access network node, radio terminal, core network node, and method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,568, issued on Sept. 30, 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: "During handover of a radio terminal (1) from a first network to a second network, a target RAN node (3) is operates to: receive, from a core network (5), slice information about a network slice which is included in the second network and to which the radio terminal (1) is to be connected; create, upon receiving the slice information, radio resource configuration information that is to be used by...