US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Method, apparatus, and computer program product for network slice aware public land mobile network selection" (American, British, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,451, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Fla.).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for network slice aware public land mobile network selection" was invented by Alessio Casati (West Molesey, Great Britain), Hannu Hietalahti (Kiviniemi, Finland), Betsy Covell (Chicago) and Sung Hwan Won (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer program product for detecting and switching between locally available PLMNs accessible to a user equipment based on a Preferred PLMN List and a Network Slice Aware PLMN Exceptions List configured by a HPLMN. The user equipmen...