ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,005, issued on April 22, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for processing visual network service" was invented by Pyung Koo Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Tae Yeon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Ho Sun Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Byeong Ok Kwak (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for processing an application service. The method includes: registering a user using a visual network service and at least one physical entity supporting the visual network service; mapping at least one virtual entity c...