ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,350, issued on June 23, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Core network RFID reader communication service" was invented by Marouane Balmakhtar (Fairfax, Va.) and Lyle W. Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing a communication service to a radio frequency identity (RFID) tag reader. The method comprises allocating network slice resources of a telecommunication network for the reader by a controller by sending a first message to a network slice selection function (NSSF) in the network, wherein the controller is an application that executes on a computer system i...