US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "Access barring for radio access network slicing" (Chinese, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,341, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Access barring for radio access network slicing" was invented by Yuqin Chen (Beijing), Birgit Breining (Munich), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Longda Xing (San Jose, Calif.), Rama Diwakara Rao Noolu (Fremont, Calif.), Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Ramon, Calif.), Srirang A. Lovlekar (Fremont, Calif.) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) may be barred from accessing one or more network slices. The UE collects information to perform an access barring procedure cor...