US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 23 for "CPU power management for virtualized radio access networks" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,354, issued on June 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"CPU power management for virtualized radio access networks" was invented by Anuj Kalia (San Francisco), Yu Yan (Issaquah, Wash.), Xenofon Foukas (Cambridge, Great Britain), Bozidar Radunovic (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Nikita Lazarev (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for improving the performance and energy efficiency of Radio Access Networks (RANs) are described. Various power control schemes may dynamically adjust RAN power consumption based on fluctuations in network traffic, throughput, latency, ...