ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,788, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Enhanced service classification for service function chaining in next generation cellular networks" was invented by Zongrui Ding (Portland, Ore.), Qian Li (Portland, Ore.), Alexandre Saso Stojanovski (Paris), Sudeep Palat (Cheltenham, Great Britain), Thomas Luetzenkirchen (Taufkirchen, Germany), Abhijeet Kolekar (Portland, Ore.), Ching-Yu Liao (Portland, Ore.), Sangeetha Bangolae (Portland, Ore.), Youn Hyoung Heo (Seoul, South Korea) and Xiaopeng Tong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to se...