ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,657, issued on July 22, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring performance of a network slice and mitigating load on the network slice" was invented by James Mathew (Belle Mead, N.J.), Peretz Feder (Englewood, N.J.), Mourad B. Takla (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Sachin Vargantwar (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive network data identifying uplink/downlink packet loss percentage, uplink/downlink jitter, uplink/downlink latency, and uplink/downlink packet throughput associated with a slice of a network, and may set an uplink value for each of...