US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Oct. 7 for "Joint consideration of service function placement and definition for deployment of a virtualized service" (Hungarian, American, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,817, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Stockholm).

"Joint consideration of service function placement and definition for deployment of a virtualized service" was invented by Robert Szabo (Budapest, Hungary), Balazs Nemeth (Nagyalasony, Hungary), Akos Recse (Halasztelek, Hungary), Michael Martin (Wake Forest, N.C.), Massimiliano Maggiari (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Malgorzata Svensson (Nattraby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of deployment of a virtualized service on a cloud infrastructure while taking into consideration variability/elasticity of the cloud resources are described...