ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,274, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for management of maximum simultaneous slices" was invented by Ambreen Habib (Golden, Colo.), Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, Texas), Raquel Morera Sempere (Weehawken, N.J.), David Taft (Keller, Texas) and Violeta Cakulev (Millburn, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein provide a slice management and prioritization service on a per user equipment (UE) device level. A network device in a core network may receive a notification that a UE device has exhausted a quota of available si...