ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,635, issued on June 9, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) slicing in wireless communication networks" was invented by Nassereddine Sabeur (Bellevue, Wash.), Joel Lee Arends (Renton, Wash.) and Saqib Badar (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments comprise wireless communication networks to support slicing in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) core. In some examples, the wireless communication network comprises a multimedia function and a network data system. The multimedia function receives a registration request indicatin...