ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,023, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method configuring a slice profile in a fifth generation network" was invented by Deepanshu Gautam (Bangalore, India), Jaijin Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Varini Gupta (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on t...