ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,113, issued on April 7, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Applying management constraints during network slice design" was invented by Nour Gritli (Montreal), Maria Toeroe (Montreal) and Ferhat Khendek (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing at least one Network Service (NS) to a Network Slice (NwS) during a design phase of the NwS based on a NwS Forwarding Graph (NwS FG) which comprises Network Functions (NFs) at a functional level, Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and/or Physical Network Functions (PNFs) at a resource level, and embedding information for embedding the VNFs a...