ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,766, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Coverage area attribute for network slicing" was invented by Atsushi Ishii (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless terminal communicates with a management entity of a core network through an access node of a radio access network (RAN). The core network supports one or more network slices, each of the network slices providing a designated service within a public land mobile network (PLMN). The wireless terminal 30(23) comprises receiver circuitry and processor circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive a message comprising one ...