ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,793, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Method of slice-based cell reselection and related device" was invented by Mei-Ju Shih (Taipei, Taiwan), Hung-Chen Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Yung-Lan Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ming-Hung Tao (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a UE for performing slice-based cell reselection is provided. The method includes receiving slice priority information including at least one slice and at least one priority value associated with the at least one slice; receiving frequency priority information including one or more slices, at least one frequency supporting ...