ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,951, issued on March 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Capacity management for radio-based applications" was invented by Diwakar Gupta (Seattle), Benjamin Wojtowicz (San Francisco), Upendra Bhalchandra Shevade (Washington), Ximeng Simon Yang (San Francisco) and Ishwardutt Parulkar (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first extension resource group (ERG) of a provider network, comprising a radio-based application pipeline processing server with a network accelerator card, is configured at an external premise. A first set of network functions of a radio-based application is executed at the card. A sec...