ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,342, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Network slice mobility management" was invented by SungDuck Chun (Fairfax, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.), Jian Xu (McLean, Va.) and Stanislav Filin (Chantilly, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second base station (BS) receives, in response to sending a path switch request message, a path switch acknowledge message comprising one or more identifiers of one or more partially allowed network slices for a wireless device, wherein the one or more partially allowed network slice are not supported in ...