ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,213, issued on April 1, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Predictive zero-touch network and systems reconciliation using artificial intelligence and/or machine learning" was invented by Subrat Patra (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Abdulla Udaipurwala (Monroe Township, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first information indicative of one or more historical operating characteristics of a network; obtaining second information indicative of one or more current operating characteristics of the network; comparing, via a first computer-implemented proce...