ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,223, issued on June 9, was assigned to INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY (Mumbai, India).

"Network architecture for unified handling of services" was invented by Pranav Kumar Jha (Mumbai, India), Rashmi Kamran (Mumbai, India), Shwetha Kiran (Mumbai, India), Abhay Karandikar (Mumbai, India) and Prasanna S. Chaporkar (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein disclose a modular, scalable, and flexible network architecture which can handle all services in a unified manner, wherein the architecture can handle built-in services in NGNs in a manner similar to application-based services by decoupling the "built-in" ...