ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,403, issued on July 14, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Information sending method and information sending apparatus" was invented by Xiaofei Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information sending method includes: determining related information of a slice supported by a cell; and sending the related information to a non-access stratum by means of an access stratum."

The patent was filed on April 9, 2021, under Application No. 18/554,601.

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