ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,380, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Slice admission control method and communication apparatus" was invented by Zhongding Lei (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slice admission control method and a communication apparatus. For each slice of each UE, a determination is made to release a quota in a slice and that is occupied by the UE by using a single slice as a granularity and based on whether a slice use status of the UE is idle, or by setting valid duration in which the UE is admitted to the slice. The determination to release a quota in a slice and that is occupied by ...