ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,881, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Orchestration of client-accessible test slices on a cellular network" was invented by Siddhartha Chenumolu (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements for creating a slice on a cellular network are detailed herein. A cellular service request that indicates various metrics for a slice may be received. A test function may be created on the cellular network based on the cellular service request. Access to a reduced-scale slice that provides access to the test function for a small set of user equipment (UE) can be provided along with acce...