ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,731, issued on May 5, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Slice information for cell selection or cell reselection" was invented by Yuan Gao (Shenzhen, China) and He Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described to perform cell selection operation or cell reselection operation by using slice information. An example wireless communication method includes receiving, by a communication device, a slice information that indicates a configuration associated with one or more slices; and performing, by the communication device, a cell selection operation or a cell re-selection operation with a target ...