ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,042, issued on March 4, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method for network slice isolation management" was invented by Jing Ping (Chengdu, China), Iris Adam (Munich), Anatoly Andrianov (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Xiaoguang Zhao (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for network isolation management is described. The method includes assigning or creating one or more isolation groups for at least one service, wherein resources of services assigned in an isolation group are shared with or without isolation; wherein an isolation group is defined for at least one resource in each layer and each domain...