ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,619, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Network function selection for user equipment via a gateway network node" was invented by Manish Bhalla (Bengaluru, India) and Sung Hwan Won (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products provide network function selection for user equipment via a gateway network node. In an implementation, a single-network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) list is received from a user equipment (UE). Additionally, it is determined whether a network node does not support a non-access stratum...