ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,968, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"System and method for change request assisted policy state management" was invented by Vijay Kumar (Indore, India), Hari Sridasyam (Indore, India), Sayan Sarkar (Indore, India) and Sandeep Karkala (Indore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method executed by processing circuitry, includes receiving, from a user interface (UI), one or more network assurance policies configured to be used in a CPE; receiving, periodically from a change request (CR) adaptor service, one or more active change requests (CRs) configured to be implemented; storing the one or more act...