ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,656, issued on April 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and system for performing charging processing on network slice customer, and related device" was invented by Xiaoqian Chai (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing charging processing on a network slice customer includes: receiving a first charging request message including session information from a session management device, where the session information includes an attribute of a PDU session of a user equipment on a network slice instance; determining that charging processing is to be performed on a targe...