ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,770, issued on June 17, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Intent-driven network analytics for predictive network slice management" was invented by Ronald Mark Parker (Manchester, Mass.), Michael Anthony Brown (McKinney, Texas), Bahareh Sadeghi (Vancouver, Wash.) and Mark Gordon Libby (Groton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are examples for providing intent based network slice management using a management data analytics function (MDAF) to predict deficiencies. A network management system receives an intent for a network slice constituent. The network management system configures com...