ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,459, issued on July 14, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for supporting network slice admission control based on subscription and policy control" was invented by Violeta Cakulev (Milburn, N.J.), Hossein M. Ahmadi (Parsippany, N.J.), Robert Avanes (Roanoke, Texas), Ali Imdad Malik (East Brunswick, N.J.) and Lixia Yan (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network device of a network may generate a first request for an indication of whether a user equipment is subject to network slice admission control, and may provide the first request for the indication...