ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,131, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Computer-based service chain node adequacy framework" was invented by Harish Bharti (Pune, India), Rajesh Kumar Saxena (Thane East, India), Sandeep Sukhija (Rajasthan, India) and Deepak Bajaj (Jaipur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to improve service chain node adequacy, embodiments utilize fifth-generation technology standard (5G) for broadband cellular networks architecture for creating relevant network slices for dedicated business processes, to ensure that each node within the network slice has stabilized operatio...