ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,629, issued on May 6, was assigned to AT&T Mobility II LLC (Atlanta).

"Dynamic and optimal selection of internet of things (IoT) hubs in cellular networks" was invented by Basavaraj Patil (Dallas) and Senthil Nathan Ramakrishnan (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An architecture for dynamically selecting and routing traffic from Internet of things (IoT) devices and sensors to the nearest or most proximate IoT hub device. A method can comprise receiving a connection request from a user device; retrieving address data representing a network device of a group of network devices; and sending the address data to the user device."

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