MUMBAI, India, Sept. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202515079099 A) filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, U.S.A., on Aug. 20, for 'ue provision of slice information for improved network slice selection during inter rat transfers.'

Inventor(s) include Soliman, Ahmed M.; Kiss, Krisztian; Zaus, Robert; and Kodali, Sree Ram.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 12, under issue no. 37/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A user equipment device (UE) provides slice related information to a first 5 cellular network (4G Network) that does not support network slicing. This slice related information may assist the 4G Network in providing the appropriate network slice selection assistance information (NSSAI) to the UE for use during subsequent inter RAT transfers to a different cellular network (5G Network) that does support network slicing."

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