ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,303, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Syniverse Technologies LLC (Tampa, Fla.).

"Network slice multi-service manager" was invented by Monique Jeanne Morrow (Zurich), Edward Yau (Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong) and Pradeep Bhardwaj (Swindon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention is a system and method for allocating and monetizing resources on a 5G infrastructure. A service manager module receiving a slice request from a client. A real-time analytics engine gauges the optimum resource path which then then requested from a resource manager. A slice offer for the resource is made to the client which is accepted. The se...