ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,500, issued on June 23, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for controlling network slice in wireless communication system" was invented by Dongeun Suh (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a fifth generation (5G) or sixth generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method a network entity in a wireless communication system includes determining whether to transmit an update request message for a number of at least one user equipment (UE) with at least one packet data unit (PDU) session or packet data ne...