ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,353, issued on March 17, was assigned to Boost SubscriberCo LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Utilization of virtualized distributed units at cell sites" was invented by Dhaval Mehta (Aldie, Va.), Sourabh Gupta (Ashburn, Va.) and Gurpreet Sohi (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for improving telecommunications services by intelligently deploying radio access network components and redundant links within a data center hierarchy to satisfy latency, power, availability, and quality of service requirements for one or more network slices are described. The radio access network components may include virtualized ...