ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,922, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for supporting network slice services using transport devices" was invented by Kristen Sydney Young (Mine Hill, N.J.), Rishi Tandon (Haryana, India), Sandeep Sarma (Tamil Nadu, India), Hans Raj Nahata (New Providence, N.J.) and Yueping Zhang (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises one or more devices. The devices are configured to: receive a context associated with a flow of packets between a User Equipment device (UE) and a network slice in a wireless network; obtain one or more policy ru...