ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,159, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Configuration indication" was invented by Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz (Espoo, Finland), Omer Bulakci (Munich) and Muhammad Naseer-Ul-Islam (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus, comprising means for performing: receiving a first message, the first message indicating information for at least one network slice identity in one or more radio network areas; receiving a second message, the second message indicating configuration information for one or more network slices; determining a configuration to be used for a given network sli...