ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,414, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods, and computer programs for network automation" was invented by Janne Tapio Ali-Tolppa (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Stephen Mwanje (Dorfen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus arranged to: receive, from a configuration controller, a request for feedback on a network configuration in a communications network; request feedback on the network configuration from a plurality of network critic functions; aggregate feedback received from at least part of the plurality of network critic functions in res...