ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,301, issued on June 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Interworking of legacy appliances in virtualized networks" was invented by John J. Browne (Limerick, Ireland), Timothy Verrall (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Maryam Tahhan (Limerick City, Ireland), Michael J. McGrath (Cavan, Ireland), Sean Harte (Limerick, Ireland), Kevin Devey (Cork, Ireland), Jonathan Kenny (Tipperary, Ireland) and Christopher MacNamara (Limerick, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform; and an interworking broker function (IBF) hosted on the hardware platform, the IBF including a translation dri...