ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,453, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ALEF EDGE HOLDINGS I LLC (New York).

"System and method for implementing packet processing network functions as a service" was invented by James Jian Ni (Medford, Mass.), Dean Bogdanovic (Brookline, Mass.), Ritesh Johar (Glen Allen, Va.), Zidan Lian (San Jose, Calif.) and Swapnil More (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system including a data plane service implementation (DPSI) platform operably accessible via application programming interfaces (APIs), implement packet processing network functions as a service. The APIs allow creation, customization, and configuration of...