ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,009, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"NFV infrastructure system based on extended container infrastructure" was invented by Young Han Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jang Won Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An NFV infrastructure system based on a container infrastructure includes a master node configured to distribute and manage a virtual network function (VNF) which is an individual network function according to a request by an administrator; and a worker node of an extended container infrastructure structure which allocates the distrib...