ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,967, issued on July 21, was assigned to Boost SubscriberCo LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Mobile application triggered network slice management" was invented by Sougata Saha (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements for cellular network slice usage management are presented herein. In response to an application being launched for execution, an access point name (APN) list update request can be transmitted. In response, an APN list update can be transmitted back to the UE based on the application being executed. The UE's stored APN list can be updated based on the APN list update. The UE can then determine a bearer s...