ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,153, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Area scope of band associations for network slicing" was invented by Atsushi Ishii (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless terminal communicates with a management entity of a core network to receive network slice band association information, NSBAI, including an area scope indication. Receiver circuitry of the wireless terminal is configured to receive, from a first cell of the RAN, a message comprising network slice band association information including the area scope indication. The processor circuitry is configured to select from the network sli...