ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,054, issued on June 30, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"User equipment (UE) and communication control method performed by UE" was invented by Yoko Kuge (Sakai City, Japan), Yudai Kawasaki (Sakai City, Japan) and Masaki Izumi (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A User Equipment (UE) includes a transmission and reception unit, a storage unit, and a controller, in which the transmission and reception unit is configured to receive Allowed Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (NSSAI) and one or more first mapped Single Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (S-NSSAI) for the Allowed NSSAI, ...