ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,858, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Determining a machine-learning architecture for network slicing" was invented by Jibing Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Erik Richard Stauffer (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and devices for determining a machine-learning architecture. A user equipment (UE) transmits, to a network-slice manager of a wireless network, a first machine-learning architecture request message to request permission to use a first machine-learning architecture. The UE receives a first machine-learning architecture response message that...