ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,878, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Using physical and logical modeling of network inventory resources for discovery, assignment and activation" was invented by Allison Whittaker (Alpharetta, Ga.), Andrew Mayer (Lake Como, N.J.) and Ernie Bayha (Jackson, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technologies described herein are generally directed to modeling network systems. For example, a method described herein can include receiving request data representative of a planning request for a network equipment project applicable to network equipment that is part of a network. Further, bas...