ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,352, issued on April 21, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for supporting usage limits for a group of user equipment based on network slice admission control and policy and charging control" was invented by Violeta Cakulev (Milburn, N.J.), Lixia Yan (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Hossein M. Ahmadi (Parsippany, N.J.) and Ali Imdad Malik (East Brunswick, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device of a network may generate a request for a usage limit control associated with a plurality of user equipments (UEs) registered with the network, and may provide the request for the ...