ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,472, issued on April 7, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Device, method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium for network slicing" was invented by Yi Ming Jiang (Shanghai), Gang Cheng (Shanghai) and Zhijie Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a Network Slice Instance (NSI) management object corresponding to an NSI managed by a core network is acquired at a wireless access device, the NSI management object having wireless network characteristics associated with the NSI; NSI capability information is advertised to a terminal device in a wireless network provided by...