US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Network slice local switching at a distributed unit" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,316, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Network slice local switching at a distributed unit" was invented by Alessio Casati (West Molesey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus comprising means for receiving, from a distributed unit of a radio access network node at a centralized unit control plane part of the radio access network node, an indication that the distributed unit supports network slices providing local switching at the distributed unit, indicating, from the centralized unit control plane part of the radio access network node to...