ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,474, issued on May 13, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Network packet handling" was invented by Yekta Turk (Ankara, Turkey) and Semiha Tedik Basaran (Istanbul).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for handling packets in a network. The method is performed by a first entity. The method is performed in response to receipt of a first packet, from a first network slice in the network, to be scheduled for a first service. A first priority value is assigned to the first packet by a provider of the first service. The method comprises setting (100) a second priority value for the first...