ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,583, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Network slice-specific authentication and authorization" was invented by Mahmoud Watfa (Staines, Great Britain) and Ricky Kumar Kaura (Staines, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a method for a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, receiving pending network slice selection assistance information (NSSAI) including one or more single NSSAIs (S-NSSAIs), and applying the received pending NSSAI to at least one second public land mobile network (PLMN) in a registration area, wherein the UE is assigned...