ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,560, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Network slice bit rate enforcement" was invented by Peter Hedman (Helsingborg, Sweden), Ralf Keller (Wurselen, Germany), Juying Gan (Shanghai), Paul Schliwa-Bertling (Ljungsbro, Germany) and Maria Belen Pancorbo Marcos (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for providing network slice bit rate information and enforcing bit rate limitations. An exemplary method provides for receiving a network slice identifier identifying a network slice and corresponding network slice bit rate information (NS-BRI) for t...