ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,842, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Physical service communication proxy domain" was invented by Thomas Belling (Erding, Germany) and Bruno Landais (Pleumeur-Bodou, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for implementing a physical service communication proxy domain A method may include interconnecting a first network element with one or more service communication proxy domains, each associated with one or several internet protocol addresses or fully qualified domain names used for the interconnection. The method may also ...