ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,281, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for network-based slice access authorization" was invented by Ye Huang (San Ramon, Calif.), Miguel A. Carames (Long Valley, N.J.), Lily Zhu (Parsippany, N.J.), Jyotsna Kachroo (Millburn, N.J.), Suzann Hua (Beverly Hills, Calif.), Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, Texas), Umesh Kumar Gupta (Morris Plains, N.J.) and Bjorn Hjelm (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving, by at least one network device and from a user device, a registration message including a service identifier an...