ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,062, issued on July 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Network slice subnet instance resource optimization for 5G systems" was invented by Joey Chou (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and system of adjusting network slice subnet instance (NSSI) resources in an open-radio access network (O-RAN) are described. The non-real time RAN Intelligent Controller (Non-RT RIC) framework of a Service Management and Orchestration (SMO), receives measurements from E2 nodes of a NSSI. The measurements are forwarded to an rApp in the SMO, which uses the measurements to determine whether one or more act...