ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,773, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Digital twin framework for next generation networks" was invented by Ned M. Smith (Beaverton, Ore.), S M Iftekharul Alam (Hillsboro, Ore.), Vesh Raj Sharma Banjade (Portland, Ore.), Satish Chandra Jha (Portland, Ore.), Liuyang Lily Yang (Portland, Ore.), Christian Maciocco (Portland, Ore.), Nageen Himayat (Fremont, Calif.), Arvind Merwaday (Beaverton, Ore.), Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain) and Kshitij Arun Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital twin model is generated for physical nodes of an edge network. The digital twin mode...