ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,824, issued on April 14, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Network slice installation-based deployment testing" was invented by Ishan Vaishnavi (Munich), Genadi Velev (Darmstadt, Germany) and Dimitrios Karampatsis (Ruislip, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for network slice installation-based deployment testing. An apparatus (300) includes a transceiver (325) and a processor (305) coupled to the transceiver (325). The processor (305) is configured to cause the apparatus (300) to detect that a new version of network software is available, determine a...