ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,837, issued on June 2, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for handover from non-standalone coverage to standalone coverage while maintaining session continuity" was invented by Darshan Gupta (Irving, Texas) and Ranjan Sharma (New Albany, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network device may transmit user equipment (UE) route selection (URSP) rules during a registration of a UE with a non-standalone (NSA) network, wherein the URSP rules exclude network slicing related rules based on a lack of network slicing support in the NSA network. The network de...