ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,422, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Method, system, and medium for dynamic slicing" was invented by Umesh Kumar Gupta (Morris Plains, N.J.), Muhammad Salman Nomani (Somerset, N.J.), Jyotsna Kachroo (Millburn, N.J.), Jun Yuan (Cranbury, N.J.), Bjorn Hjelm (Livermore, Calif.) and Helen J. Madden (Bernardsville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein enable user-aware and application-aware dynamic slicing for mobile networks. A network device in a provider network receives a dynamic slice request from a client application. The dynamic slice r...