ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,089, issued on July 28, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).
"Wireless network slice access based on encrypted slice certificates that indicate slice characteristics" was invented by Marouane Balmakhtar (Fairfax, Va.) and Lyle Walter Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication device generates a slice certificate having one or more slice characteristics for a wireless network slice. The wireless communication device encrypts the slice certificate with a wireless network key. The wireless communication device wirelessly transfers the encrypted slice certificate to ...