ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,197, issued on June 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Network slice charging method and apparatus" was invented by Lei Zhu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a network slice charging method and an apparatus. The method includes: A network slice management network element receives a first request including a charging requirement of a network slice. The network slice management network element sends to a network slice subnet management network element, a second request including the charging requirement. The network slice management network element receives first chargi...