ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,500, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Service differentiation based on constrained network topology slicing" was invented by Gunter Van de Velde (Lint, Belgium) and Matthew Bocci (East Sussex, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments for supporting service differentiation in a communication network are presented herein. The service differentiation may be supported in a constrained network topology of the communication network. The service differentiation may be supported in the constrained network topology of the communication network based on use o...