ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,233, issued on June 16, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta), AT&T Communication Services India Private Ltd. (Bangalore, India) and AT&T Global Network Services (UK)B.V. (The Hague, Netherlands).

"Automatically configuring network elements in multi-vendor and multi-domain topologies" was invented by Mritunjay Pandey (Bangalore, India), Subhash Kapoor (Wall, N.J.), Carl Thomas (Southsea, Great Britain), Somnath Mallick (West Bengal, India), Lalena Aria (Middletown, N.J.), Donald Charles Jeffery (Matawan, N.J.) and Saurav Paira (Kendall Park, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, computer-readable media, and...