ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,676, issued on May 20, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Network system and network slice generation method" was invented by Tomoyuki Iijima (Tokyo), Masayuki Takase (Tokyo) and Shiro Mazawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network system comprises a communication facility, and a management apparatus. The communication facility includes a wireless base station, a data processing apparatus, and communication processing apparatuses. The management apparatus manages resource management information for managing, as a resource, a value of an item to be set for the communication facility to generate a network slice for each of ...