ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,586, issued on April 22, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Distributed control plane functions for radio-based networks" was invented by Binh Nguyen (Mukilteo, Wash.) and Haritha Tamvada (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide distributed control plane functions for radio-based networks. In one embodiment, control plane network traffic for a first functionality of a control plane network function in a radio-based network is routed to a first control plane component in an edge location of the radio-based network. Control plane network traffic for a second functionality of the cont...