ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,665, issued on July 8, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for packet management" was invented by David Taft (Keller, Texas), Anthony Clay Reynolds (Rhome, Texas), Lap Tse (Marietta, Ga.), Raquel Morera Sempere (Weehawken, N.J.), Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, Texas), Luay Jalil (Allen, Texas) and Nicklous D. Morris (Trophy Club, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein allow reduced latency and computational costs by identifying a slice associated with a packet and determining an action to be performed with respect to the packet without having to ...