US Patent Issued to Intel on May 27 for "Energy aware network slicing" (Irish, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,185, issued on May 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Energy aware network slicing" was invented by John J. Browne (Limerick, Ireland), Chris M. MacNamara (Ballyclough, Ireland), David Hunt (Meelick, Ireland), Amruta Misra (Bangalore, India), Tomasz Kantecki (Ennis, Ireland), Shobhi Jain (Shannon, Ireland) and Liang Ma (Shannon, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising an interface to access a network slice power consumption parameter for a network slice comprising a logical network between two endpoints through a plurality of physical computing platforms; and a controller comprising circuitry, ...