ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,622, issued on April 7, was assigned to Boost SubscriberCo LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Vendor onboarding and pre-deployment service testing" was invented by Nikhil Sharma (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) and Ramanathan Sekkappan (Prosper, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for service vendor onboarding and pre-production artifact validation and functional testing are provided. An example method includes receiving, in an automated test control system in connection with a cellular network, a request for deploying an artifact on the cellular network, generating an artifact profile, a configuration profile, a release note asso...