ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,839, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Method and system for network slice-based high priority service handling in radio access technology (RAT) switching" was invented by Yupeng Jia (South Pasadena, Calif.) and Hongyan Lei (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting initiation of a service associated with a UE, where the service comprises an OTT voice/video call, facilitating, for the service, activation of an end-to-end network slice between a core network and the UE, detecting a RAT switch determination for the UE, whe...