ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,816, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for virtual private network using wireless network slice" was invented by Kevin Xu (Warren, N.J.) and Valerie Feldmann (Morristown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first device described herein may maintain a set of slice forwarding rules that include information associating a particular set of traffic attributes with a particular network slice of a wireless network. The first device may receive, via a particular interface of one or more interfaces of the first device, traffic from a second device. The first dev...