ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,843, issued on April 14, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Apparatuses and methods for managing traffic in communication networks and systems in conjunction with a configurable broker" was invented by Srinath Dontula Sriram Ulu (Sugar Hill, Ga.), John Yannacci (Monroe Township, N.J.), Saud Asif (East Brunswick, N.J.), Mohammad Islam (Merrimack, N.H.), Sunil Maloo (Edison, N.J.) and Vijay Bhaskar Uppala (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a configuration of a network, selecting a first configuration of a network packet broker ba...