ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,409, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Communication control method and user equipment" was invented by Mitsutaka Hata (Yokohama, Japan) and Masato Fujishiro (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment includes a step of receiving network slice restriction information related to a network slice to be provided with a restrictive condition from a base station or a core network apparatus. The restrictive condition is a condition for restricting use of the network slice. The network slice restriction information includes an identifier for identifying the network slice and information i...