US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Aug. 25 for "Slice continuity in handover" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,389, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Slice continuity in handover" was invented by Patrik Salmela (Espoo, Finland), Markus Hanhisalo (Espoo, Finland) and Juha Kujanen (Keuruu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for network slice continuity in handover of a communication network are provided. In some embodiments, a User Equipment (UE) is configured to receive, from a network node on a first cell, a first message comprising an indication of at least one cell that supports a particular network slice and engage in a handover operation based on the indication ...