US Patent Issued to Sharp on June 23 for "Cell barring for network slicing" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,342, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Cell barring for network slicing" was invented by Atsushi Ishii (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access node of a radio access network (RAN) supports one or more network slices, each of the network slices providing a designated service within a public land mobile network (PLMN). The access node comprises processor circuitry and transmitter circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to generate system information comprising a list of one or more PLMN identifiers and an association of each of the PLMN identifiers with corresponding network...