ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,722, issued on July 8, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Validation of alignment of wireless and wireline network function configuration with domain name system records" was invented by Chaoxin Qiu (Austin, Texas), Eric Ashby (Batavia, Ill.), Min Lu (Holmdel, N.J.) and Lakshminarashimhan Naidu (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for validating alignment between network element configuration and DNS records associated with a communication network are presented. Alignment management component (AMC) can retrieve respective configuration parameter data items relating to respective configura...