ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,429, issued on May 26, was assigned to VELOCLOUD NETWORKS LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Split control plane for private mobile network" was invented by Anand Srinivas (San Francisco), Xiao H. Gao (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Sameer Naik (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for implementing a software-defined private mobile network (SD-PMN) for an entity includes, at a physical location of the entity, deploying a first set of control plane components for the SD-PMN, the first set of control plane components including a security gateway, a user-plane function (UPF), an AMF (access and mobility management function), and an ...