ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,810, issued on March 18, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Wireline and/or wireless integrated access networks" was invented by Zhi Cui (Sugar Hill, Ga.), John B. Bartell (Milton, Ga.), Hongyan Lei (Plano, Texas), Paul Edward Smith Jr. (Heath, Texas) and Venson Shaw (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device comprising: a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising: obtaining a fir...