ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,049, issued on July 22, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Controlling network node, and method performed therein" was invented by Arturo Martin de Nicolas (Brussels), Calin Curescu (Hasselby, Sweden), Peter Woerndle (Wurselen, Germany) and Staffan Blau (Spanga, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein disclose for example a method performed by a controlling network node for handling one or more virtual network functions (VNF) in a communication network. The controlling network node initiates a setup of virtual resources for a VNF, wherein an aggregating connection point (CP), indicat...