ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,822, issued on June 23, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"User equipment hosting for customizable 5G services" was invented by Robert Butler (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service provider of a telecommunications network provides local hosting of virtual user equipment (UE) clients to enable the clients to access locally access services of the telecommunications network's control plane. The service provider deploys a virtual UE client on a computing device associated with the service provider, where the virtual UE client includes computer program instructions that when executed by the comput...