ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,691, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for management and access control of network slice in wireless communication system" was invented by Sangsoo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hoyeon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and a device for controlling access in a wireless communication system and, particularly, to a method and a device for management and access control of a network (NW) slice in a wireless communication system. According to one embodiment of the disclosure, a method by which a first NW function (NF ...