ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,922, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"User equipment (UE) including first single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI), second S-NSSAI, first protocol data unit (PDU) session of session and service continuity (SSC) mode 2, and second PDU session" was invented by Yoko Kuge (Sakai City, Japan), Yasuo Sugawara (Sakai City, Japan), Shuichiro Chiba (Sakai City, Japan) and Masaki Izumi (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In 5GS, provided is a communication unit for continuing services of a PDU session in a network slice in a case that the network slice is congested, a ca...