ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,396, issued on April 8, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.) and DISH Network Technologies India Private Ltd. (Bangalore, India).

"IMS and voice service implementation in standalone cellular networks over a public cloud" was invented by Mohammad Dawood Shahdad (Aurora, Colo.), Sruthi Nair (Aurora, Colo.), Jaya Chandra Chikatmarla (Highlands Ranch, Colo.), Krupal Kumar Patel (Parker, Colo.) and Kumar Anshuman (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for implementing an IP multimedia services or subsystem ("IMS") within a communication network. One system may include a server con...