ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,253, issued on July 8, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Network slice management method, terminal, and computer readable storage medium" was invented by Haicheng Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Dingyuan Tu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a network slice management method, a terminal device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The network slice management method comprises: acquiring terminal operation information (S100); determining, according to the terminal operation information, a network slice to be released from network slices accessed by applications of the terminal (S200);...