ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,945, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for automation of end-to-end network slice deployment" was invented by Jude M. Munn (Pittsburg, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein enable automation of network slice deployments. A network device stores a group of preconfigured templates for different slice segments of a data transport network and identifies customer parameters for a slice. The network device retrieves a first template that satisfies the customer parameters for a first slice segment and generates a first segmen...