ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,654, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Pre-build validation of distributed disaggregated white box routing systems" was invented by John Velez (Osprey, Fla.), Michael Vitella (Freehold, N.J.), Rutesh Narielwala (Feasterville Trevose, Pa.) and Ian Ricard (Ortonville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for performing pre-build validation of distributed disaggregated white box routing systems are disclosed. One method includes connecting, via a physical network connection, to a distributed, disaggregated white box routing system comprising a plu...