ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,683, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Network function configurator and test generator" was invented by Kavita Swapnil Kulkarni (Old Bridge, N.J.), Andrew Scott Brooks (Northborough, N.J.) and Steven Rhejohn Barlin So (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network function configuration and test generation framework are configured to generate a test script indicative of a configuration and test cases for verifying a virtual function implemented in a virtualized computing environment. A test input is received that encodes information for verifying a network function. T...