ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,384, issued on March 17, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for network slice performance optimization" was invented by Ali Imdad Malik (East Brunswick, N.J.) and Amir Saghir (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive an indication that a radio access network fails to support a network slice target service level agreement for a user equipment associated with a network slice. The network device may provide, to the radio access network, a network slice identifier associated with the network slice target service level agreement not supported by t...