ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,818, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Slice-specific cell re-direction" was invented by Halit Murat Gursu (Munich), Philippe Godin (Versailles, France), Sung Hwan Won (Flower Mound, Texas), Omer Bulakci (Munich), Muhammad Naseer-Ul-Islam (Munich) and Ahmad Awada (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including receiving, from a second cell, a paging message associated with a network slice supported by a first cell, wherein the paging message includes at least an indication indicating to wait for a command indicative of performing a re-direction or a handover from the second cell to th...