ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,714, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Incremental platform migration for telecommunications systems" was invented by Kazi Bashir (Lewisville, Texas), Mehdi Alasti (Arlington, Va.) and Siddhartha Chenumolu (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Incremental platform migration for telecommunications systems is disclosed. Network Functions (NFs) and capacity on a new (target) platform are incrementally scaled up and NFs and capacity on a legacy (current) platform are scaled down until the migration to the target platform is completed. As such, if issues arise during migration, the legacy platf...