ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,255, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"System and method for dynamic network function management" was invented by Emerando M. Delos Reyes (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Satish S. Vasamsetti (San Francisco), Tony Ferreira (Greenwich, Conn.) and Michael Kondratiuk (Hillsborough, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods enable dynamic network function management, including obtaining user input data identifying network slice provisioning parameters for a creation of a network slice in a network; sending a request for a network repository function (NRF) instance for the n...