ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,158, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Deployment of a virtualized service on a cloud infrastructure based on interoperability requirements between service functions" was invented by Robert Szabo (Budapest, Hungary), Michael Martin (Wake Forest, N.C.), Malgorzata Svensson (Nattraby, Sweden), Massimiliano Maggiari (Pleasanton, Calif.), Akos Recse (Halasztelek, Hungary) and Balazs Nemeth (Nagyalasony, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of deployment of a virtualized service on a cloud infrastructure are described. A first service function specification of a f...