ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,216, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Network slicing in radio access network" was invented by Qiuyun Zhang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for providing network slicing. The method comprises obtaining information concerning a service to be provided to a second device; determining whether the service is available from a target network slice managed by the first device; and in response to a determination that the service is available from the target netwo...