ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,269, issued on June 24, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for network slice modification by policy control function in a wireless network" was invented by Violeta Cakulev (Milburn, N.J.), Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, Texas), Lily Zhu (Parsippany, N.J.), Gerardo S. Libunao (Manalapan, N.J.), Deepa Jagannatha (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Raquel Morera Sempere (Weehawken, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may provide a technique for a policy and/or rules element of a core network, such as a Policy Control Function ("PCF"), to identify a first netwo...