ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,381, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Network slice provision management" was invented by SungDuck Chun (Fairfax, Va.), Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.) and Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device receives, from a core network node, one or more messages comprising an identifier of a network slice, an identifier of an alternative network slice mapped to the network slice, and an identifier of a network slice group associated with the alternative network slice."

The patent was filed on Feb. 6, 2025, under Application No. 19/046,982.

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