US Patent Issued to NEC on March 24 for "User equipment, and method for receiving an extensible authentication protocol (EAP) identity request" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,843, issued on March 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"User equipment, and method for receiving an extensible authentication protocol (EAP) identity request" was invented by Toshiyuki Tamura (Tokyo) and Tsuyoshi Takakura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network slice information management by a UE 10 has not been defined for a network slice for which network slice-specific authentication and authorization are pending. A UE may receive, from a core network node, first information indicating that a procedure of network slice-specific authentication and authorization is pending; store first network slice information includin...