ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,933, issued on July 21, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Method and apparatus for a software defined virtual platform for a communication device" was invented by Yupeng Jia (South Pasadena, Calif.), Hongyan Lei (Plano, Texas) and Venson Shaw (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, partitioning processing resources required for execution of an application initiated at a first communication device into a plurality of virtual processing segments, determining a set of the plurality of virtual processing segments according to a plurality of capa...