ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,198, issued on July 28, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I, I.P. (Atlanta).

"Model creation and management using a model management service" was invented by Michael Roybal (Woodinville, Wash.), Matthew Heyer (Saint George, Utah) and Wilson Huang (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Model creation and management using a model management service can include obtaining model management data that comprises modeling data that defines a project to model, the project including a network flow, a network system, a device, or a process; detecting, in the model management data, a selection of a template to apply to the pr...