ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,712, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for network slicing management by network slice subnet management function" was invented by Ganesh Chandrasekaran (Bangalore, India) and Donghyeok Ho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for network slicing management by slice subnet management function towards South Bound (SB) blocks. The method may comprise providing network slicing related information to South Bound, SB, blocks of the NSSMF to establish an interface between the NSSMF and the SB bl...