ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,302, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network slice utilization management in wireless networks" was invented by Sri Gundavelli (San Jose, Calif.) and Vimal Srivastava (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for optimizing utilization of available network slices, where such slices are created for specific applications/purposes. In one aspect, a method includes establishing a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session for a mobile device on a default network slice; determining an application to be used on the mobile device; determini...