ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,239, issued on April 21, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Trust level in network slices" was invented by Giuseppe Celozzi (Naples, Italy), Luca Baldini (Rome), Daniele Gaito (Naples, Italy) and Gaetano Patria (San Prisco, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for operating a slice management entity (100) configured to manage a network slice of a cellular network, the method comprising: -periodically determining a trust level of the network slice based on time dependent trust values of network components used by the network slice, -determining whether the determined...