ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,857, issued on March 31, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Network slicing enhancement" was invented by Zhiguo Li (Beijing) and Nan Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to network slicing enhancements with randomly generated application identifiers. For example, by handling requests of an application, a user equipment (UE) may be able to forward such requests to a network entity to receive an encoded random number token corresponding to the application to provide for improved indexing of applications on the UE."

The patent...