US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 30 for "Management services for 5G networks and network functions" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,042, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Management services for 5G networks and network functions" was invented by Yizhi Yao (Chandler, Ariz.) and Joey Chou (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of managing creation and configuration for 5G networks, NFs and NSSIs are provided. An instantiation or configuration request received from a managed entity respectively instantiates or configures the appropriate element. For NF instantiation, when the NF has a virtualized part to be instantiated by a VNF, interaction with an NFV MANO system instantiates the VNF is followed by N...