ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,019, issued on July 29, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"Computer system and network slice management method" was invented by Shinya Kita (Tokyo), Puneet Devadiga (Tokyo), Rajat Singh (Tokyo), Bharath Rathinam (Tokyo), Abhishek Sharma (Tokyo) and Rahul Atri (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network operating system (NOS) acquires, for a plurality of network functions that achieve a network slice constructed on a mobile wireless communication network, information on an operation of each network function which is measured by one or more apparatus configured to provide at least a part of the plurality of network...