ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,904, issued on March 24, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"System and method for selecting network slices based on network slice congestion information" was invented by Lily Zhu (Parsippany, N.J.) and Deepa Jagannatha (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a memory that stores a User Equipment Route Selection Policy (URSP) and a processor. The processor is configured to: receive a signal broadcast from an access station; obtain network slice congestion information from the signal; apply the URSP to the network slice congestion information to select a network slice;...