US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 25 for "Network slice specific authentication and authorization (NSSAA) 5G new radio (NR) procedures" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,424, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Network slice specific authentication and authorization (NSSAA) 5G new radio (NR) procedures" was invented by Nirlesh Koshta (Bengaluru, India), Krisztian Kiss (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), Pradeep Pangi (Bangalore, India), Sridhar Prakasam (Fremont, Calif.) and Vijay Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are embodiments for disabling N1 mode in response to several scenarios including an S-NSSAI failure, searching NR PLMNs after a loss of coverage in an attempt to maintain network slices, and triggering a UE to reattempt authentica...