ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,681, issued on July 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"End-to-end network slicing (ENS) from ran to core network for next generation (NG) communications" was invented by Vesh Raj Sharma Banjade (Portland, Ore.), Satish Chandra Jha (Portland, Ore.), Ned M. Smith (Beaverton, Ore.), S M Iftekharul Alam (Hillsboro, Ore.), Christian Maciocco (Portland, Ore.), Liuyang Lily Yang (Portland, Ore.), Mona Vij (Hillsboro, Ore.), Kshitij Arun Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.), Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain) and Kuilin Clark Chen (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing node includes network interface circuitry a...