ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,926, issued on June 2, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC.

"Network slice registrar virtual network function" was invented by Lyle W. Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of communicating over a plurality of network slices concurrently. The method comprises building a distributed ledger by a network slice registrar function (NSRF) application executing on a computer, where the distributed ledger records an association between a first network slice allocated to a user equipment (UE) and a second network slice allocated to the UE, providing information about the association of the UE to the first...