ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,036, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Network slice deployment method and apparatus" was invented by Ruiyue Xu (Shanghai) and Kai Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose network slice deployment methods, and relate to the field of communications technologies. In an example method, the first network manager obtains node instance information, wherein the node instance information comprises identifier information of the node instance or a network address of the node instance. The first network manager determines transport requirement infor...