ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,707, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Cloud resources for smartphone applications" was invented by Yaron Kanza (Fair Lawn, N.J.), Arun Jotshi (Parsippany, N.J.) and Raghvendra Savoor (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, instantiating a virtual smartphone in a cloud infrastructure, installing a smartphone application on the virtual smartphone, receiving input sensor data from a physical user device, providing the input sensor data to the smartphone application on the virtual smartphone, receiving output data from ...