ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,327, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Dynamically handling IP address chunk sync failures" was invented by Rahul Amin (Issaquah, Wash.) and Saravana Velusamy (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems that relate to IP address assignment are disclosed. In one example aspect, a control plane device assigns a first IP address from a first IP address chunk associated with a user plane device. When the user plane device indicates that it does not have the first IP address, the control plane device deletes the first IP address chunk from its IP chunks table a...