ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,563, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Cloud deployment of network function software with a management manifest" was invented by Sean Simon (Lynnwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating a management manifest for a network function (NF) software application, wherein the NF software application is to be deployed in a cloud computing environment, based on the generating the management manifest, deriving a software package that includes the NF software application and the management manifest, and causing the software pack...