ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,205, issued on March 31, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Network slice-specific authentication and authorization" was invented by Haris Zisimopoulos (London), Lenaig Genevieve Chaponniere (La Jolla, Calif.) and Sebastian Speicher (Wallisellen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, otherwise known as a user equipment (UE) may configure an indication associated with network slice information. The UE may determine, based on the indication, that the network slice information is subject to network slice-specific authenticatio...