ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,003, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Repurposing mobility management with virtual radio in software radio access networks" was invented by Manikanta Kotaru (Kenmore, Wash.), Paramvir Bahl (Bellevue, Wash.), Daehyeok Kim (Redmond, Wash.) and Xenofon Foukas (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are examples for repurposing mobility management with virtual radio in software radio access networks. A virtual mobile network includes a first server configured to host a first mobile network distributed unit (DU) for providing a first virtual cell to a plura...