ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,968, issued on July 1, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for cellular network security slicing" was invented by Amit Pathania (Great Falls, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and machine-readable media facilitate cellular network security. Communications corresponding to requested network access from an external entity may be processed. Configuration specifications to instantiate network slices may be generated. The network slices may be instantiated in accordance with the configuration specifications with network access provided to user equipment of the external entity, the c...