ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,949, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Method and user equipment for enhancing network slicing" was invented by Yoko Kuge (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are procedures for initial UE registration and periodic or movement-based registration, and a communication unit to achieve management of the maximum number of UEs connected to each slice in 5GS. Furthermore, a method for managing a timer running after completion of the registration procedure, and a method of registration procedure and a communication unit for both a UE in which the timer is running and a UE in which the timer is no...