ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,980, issued on June 16, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Resource allocation using load balancing techniques in mobile networks" was invented by Keiji Fukui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing load in a base station apparatus is reduced, while also suitably controlling the amount of resources usable by each telecommunications provider. A setting section sets, based on a minimum number of connections with respect to each of a plurality of mobile communication networks, as notified by each of the mobile communication networks, shared resources that are shared by the plurality of mobile communication networks, and indi...