ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,260, issued on April 14, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for dynamic slice selection in a wireless network" was invented by Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah (Keller, Texas), Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, Texas), Jerry Steben (Forth Worth, Texas) and Suzann Hua (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may receive a communication session request associated with a particular User Equipment ("UE") and a network that includes a plurality of network slices. The communication session request may include a particular identifier, such as a...