ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,414, issued on May 20, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta) and Interwise Ltd. (Airport City, Israel).

"Automated equipment tracking for service technicians" was invented by Sreenivas Nukala (Bellevue, Wash.), Adam Hersh (Highland Park, Ill.), Nir Ganani (Herzelia, Israel), Satish Janardan (Plano, Texas), Bryan Goettsch (Gaithersburg, Md.), Donald Willis (Arlington, Texas), Quang Cao (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Saurav Patel (Frisco, Texas), Jesse Taylor (Dallas), Mirage Hamdy (Katy, Texas), Valerie Smith (Loganville, Ga.), Meni Sasson (Kochav-Yair, Israel), Amir Benyamin (Kfar-Truman, Israel) and Stephen Alexander Roberts Jr. (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the a...