ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,546, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Automated cloud-based network function interoperability testing" was invented by Julius Mueller (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Dimitrios Elissaios (Seattle), Sanket Modak (Bellevue, Wash.) and Nikolay Krasilnikov (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A testing manager at a provider network configures a multi-network-function test sandbox for a first network function developed by a first vendor. To configure the sandbox, the testing manager causes the first network function to be run at a first server and verifies network connectivity between the first network funct...