ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,798, issued on July 15, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for binding operator-defined network service configurations to applications" was invented by Srinath Gundavelli (San Jose, Calif.), Vimal Srivastava (Bangalore, India) and Ravi Kiran Guntupalli (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for operator specific customization of a network service configuration. In some embodiments, an operator defines a mapping between an application executing on a user equipment (UE) and a network service configuration. In some embodiments, the network service configuration indicates w...