ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,598, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Network slice" was invented by Jinsook Ryu (Oakton, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.), Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.) and Weihua Qiao (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device receives, from a mobility management function, an indication that a network slice is pending. The wireless device sends, to the mobility management function based on the network slice being pending, an indication for removal of the network slice."

The patent was filed on Dec. 2, 2022, under Application No. 18/0...