ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,821, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Communication control method for inter-layer notification of slice related information" was invented by Masato Fujishiro (Yokohama, Japan) and Mitsutaka Hata (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first aspect, a communication control method is used in a mobile communication system including a user equipment and a base station, and being capable of performing wireless communication between the user equipment and the base station. The communication control method includes receiving, by a first layer of a user equipment in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) ...