ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,648, issued on May 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Random access channel parameter prioritization with network slice differentiation and access identity differentiation" was invented by Peng Cheng (Beijing), Linhai He (San Diego), Miguel Griot (La Jolla, Calif.), Ravi Agarwal (San Diego) and Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to random access procedures. An apparatus (e.g., a user equipment) may identify one or more network slices based on at least one of an access category of the apparatus, an identifier of the one or more network slices, or an index value of th...