ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,374, issued on March 17, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Buffering and forwarding data traffic" was invented by Genadi Velev (Darmstadt, Germany), Joachim Loehr (Wiesbaden, Germany), Prateek Basu Mallick (Dreieich, Germany), Ravi Kuchibhotla (Chicago) and Hyung-Nam Choi (Ottobrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for remapping traffic between network slices during handover. One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver that receives a first message indicating that a first connection is not supported in a target RAN. Here, the first connection is...