ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,218, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Separate network slicing for security events propagation across layers on special packet data protocol context" was invented by Amar Srivastava (Bangalore, India), Christian Maciocco (Portland, Ore.) and Kshitij Arun Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and system to provide separate network slices for security events are described. A dedicated secure network slice is provided for PDP data from a UE. The network slice is used for detecting security issues and sending security-related information to clients. The communications in t...