ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,650, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Device detection and network slice assignment service" was invented by Andrew F. Patka (Holliston, Mass.), Seng Gan (Ashburn, Va.), Sankar Subramanian (Ossining, N.Y.), John C. Burlison (Sherwood, Ark.) and Rajendra K. Damle (Hillsborough, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to an device detection and network slice assignment service. The device detection and network slice assignment service may include providing a subnetwork slice...