ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,114, issued on July 21, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"System and method for providing emulation as a service framework for communication networks" was invented by Garima Mishra (Bangalore, India), Samar Shailendra (Bangalore, India) and Hemant Kumar Rath (Bhubaneswar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Emulation has become a critical method for the initial phase of verification and validation processes. However, achieving interoperability between emulation systems and ensuring credibility of results currently require significant efforts. This disclosure relates to a system and method for providing...