ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,726, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Synchronized wireless network slicing" was invented by Marouane Balmakhtar (Fairfax, Va.) and Lyle Walter Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first wireless network slice executes a first slice input and generates a first slice output. The first slice transfers the first slice output to a second wireless network slice. The second slice receives and authorizes the first slice output and transfers a first acknowledgement to the first slice. The first slice receives the first acknowledgement and responsively uses the fir...