ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,423, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Charging aggregation control for network slices" was invented by Weihua Qiao (Herndon, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.), Jayshree Bharatia (Plano, Texas) and Jinsook Ryu (Oakton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A policy control function (PCF) receives from a session management function (SMF) a first message requesting policy establishment of a first packet data unit (PDU) session for a wireless device. The first message comprises a first single-network slice selection assistance information (S-NSS...