ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,974, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Spectrum allocation tool for radio-based networks" was invented by Awaiz Ahmad Khan (Milpitas, Calif.), George Edward Oakes (Maple Valley, Wash.) and Rolando Visalda Hilvano Jr. (Wurzburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for a spectrum allocation tool for radio-based networks. In one embodiment, a user definition of a coverage region for a radio-based network on a map is received via a graphical user interface. Available frequencies within the coverage region are determined based at least in part on existing spectrum ...