ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,005, issued on June 30, was assigned to Vodafone Group Services Ltd. (Newbury, Great Britain).

"Resource management platform and a method of managing network load" was invented by Youssef Chami (London), Liam Beard (London) and Paul Rosbotham (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource management platform for managing network load in a first telecommunications network operated by a first mobile network operator is provided. The resource management platform is configured to receive, from the first mobile network operator, a request for radio resources; send, to a second mobile network operator, a request to allocate radio resour...