ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,846, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Communication control method and base station" 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 communication control method includes determining, at a base station, a restrictive condition that is a condition for restricting use of a network slice, and transmitting, at the base station, restriction information related to the network slice to a core network apparatus, a certain base station other than the base station, or a user equipment."

The patent was filed on Jan. 29, 2024, under Applicatio...