ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,445, issued on March 17, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Configuration for UE access to a specific network slice" was invented by Genadi Velev (Darmstadt, Germany), Apostolis Salkintzis (Athens, Greece) and Andreas Kunz (Ladenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for provisioning a UE with information to access a specific service. One apparatus includes a transceiver that communicates with a mobile communication network and a processor that sends a first registration request to the mobile communication network, the mobile communication network supporti...