ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,804, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta) and AT&T Technical Services Co. Inc (Vienna, Va.).

"Methods, systems, and devices for load balancing over a mobile network using beamforming" was invented by Daniel Vivanco (Ashburn, Va.), Slawomir Mikolaj Stawiarski (Carpentersville, Ill.) and David Ross Beppler (Duluth, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, over a communication network, a measurement report from each of group of communication devices associated with a mobile network resulting in a group of measurement reports, and d...