ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,847, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Virtual firewall for use in a private mobile core" was invented by Tarun Chaki (Morganville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes deploying a first virtual machine configured to implement a plurality of control plane network functions in a wireless network, deploying a second virtual machine configured to implement a user plane function in the wireless network, deploying a third virtual machine configured to implement firewall functions, and deploying the first virtual mac...