ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,015, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Providing network slice assignment for a wireless device based on manufacturer usage description (MUD) parameters" was invented by Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada) and Flemming Stig Andreasen (Marlboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are techniques to facilitate slice assignment for a wireless device based on Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) parameters associated with the wireless device. In one instance, a method may include obtaining, by a provisioning server of a mobile network, a usage description object for a wireles...