ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,804, issued on June 16, was assigned to NEW RADIO LLC (Texas).

"User equipment and wireless communication method for network slicing" was invented by Mei-Ju Shih (Taipei, Taiwan), Chie-Ming Chou (Taipei, Taiwan), Yung-Lan Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chia-Hung Wei (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication method performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The wireless communication method includes transmitting, to a first base station, a radio resource control (RRC) message indicating a requested network slice, the RRC message including a UE identifier (ID) and single network slice selection assistance...