ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,481, issued on March 24, was assigned to Boost SubscriberCo LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Router packet queuing" was invented by Mohammad Dawood Shahdad (Aurora, Colo.) and Daniel Steeves (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed method may include (i) implementing, within a cloud computing platform, a hierarchical quality-of-service policy that includes a parent quality-of-service sub-policy in relation to a child quality-of-service sub-policy, (ii) receiving telecommunication traffic as part of a cellular service platform implemented through the cloud computing platform, and (iii) applying, within the cloud computing ...