ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,905, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to VerizonPatent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for automatic application-level network slicing over private cellular networks" was invented by Feng Li (Lexington, Mass.), Nandan Naik (Salem, Mass.), Mark Shostak (Plano, Texas), Zoltan Janos Dudar (Roswell, Ga.) and Sheryl Zita Zuzarth (Springfield, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a processor configured to detect that a communication session in a private cellular wireless network is associated with an application and determine that data units associated with the communication session match a...