ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,487, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for preventing network attacks in a network slice" was invented by Zhiyuan Hu (Shanghai), Jing Ping (Sichuan, China), Iris Adam (Munich) and Zhigang Luo (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for preventing network attacks in a network slice. In particular, security requirements of a network slice instance are retrieved and specific security policies to be applied to each of multiple constituent network slice subnet instances within the network slice instance are identified based on the secu...