US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Sept. 9 for "Virtual network function creation system" (Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,470, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Virtual network function creation system" was invented by Chengwei Wang (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Oliver Spatscheck (Denison, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device comprising: a processor, an input/output device coupled to the processor, and a memory coupled with the processor, the memory comprising executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to effectuate operations including instantiating at least one node comprising a packet processor and a network interface, the packet processor configured to proc...