US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 17 for "5G radio access network live migration and sharing" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,992, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"5G radio access network live migration and sharing" was invented by Xenofon Foukas (Cambridge, Great Britain), Daehyeok Kim (Redmond, Wash.), Anuj Kalia (San Francisco), Manikanta Kotaru (Kenmore, Wash.) and Jiarong Xing (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fifth generation (5G) mobile network radio access network (RAN) is virtualized for operations on edge computing platforms in a cloud-computing environment in which radio units (RUs) and radio frequency (RF) spectrum are shared among distributed units (DUs) to support use cases includ...