ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,762, issued on May 12, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Methods and systems for network slice monitoring and verification" was invented by Marouane Balmakhtar (Fairfax, Va.), Galip Murat Karabulut (Vienna, Va.) and Lyle W. Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises generating, by a storage application in a data store implemented as an interplanetary file system (IPFS), a slice data structure dedicated for the network slice in response to receiving the parameters from the slice application, in which the slice data structure comprises the parameters of the network sl...