ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,162, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Allowed network slice determination based on UE historical behavior" was invented by Yousef Abdelmalek (New Providence, N.J.), Helen Osias Eglip (Sammamish, Wash.) and Parry Cornell Booker (Sunnyvale, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device, implementing a network function, receives a network slice request from a user equipment device (UE) that includes a requested network slice set in a network. The network device determines a first set of allowed network slices for the UE based on at least one of first network slices supp...