ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,869, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Fulfillment of service requirements" was invented by Jing Ping (Chengdu, China), Konstantinos Samdanis (Munich), Anatoly Andrianov (Naperville, Ill.) and Jurgen Goerge (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for fulfillment of service requirements. In a method at a service provider, knowledge about a plurality of network and management domains is collected, and service requirements from a service consumer are determined. Base...