ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,107, issued on April 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Network slice quota management enhancements" was invented by Vijay Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.), Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar (Singapore), Krisztian Kiss (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) and Rohit R. Matolia (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network function is responsible for enforcing network slice quotas. The network function identifies a network slice quota for a single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI), determines that the network slice quota for the S-NSSAI includes a first quota corresponding to fifth generation (5G) pack...