ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,353, issued on June 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication device, control method for communication device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Akihisa Kinoshita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device, that functions as a node connected to user equipment in an IAB (Integrated Access and Backhaul) network, performs: determining whether a type of a network slice requested by the user equipment is supported by a first other node connected above the communication device; determining, when the communication device determines that the type of the network slice is not su...