ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,023, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Service management and orchestration (SMO) of satellite access networks within a network slice" was invented by Lyubov Nesteroff (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Ojas Gupta (Mountain View, Calif.), Arda Akman (San Ramon, Calif.) and Georgios Oikonomou (Patra, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example network provisioning system is configured to obtain one or more network slice subnet templates (NSSTs), including a template for a satellite access network (SAN) and, optionally, a template for a terrestrial access network (TAN). The netw...