ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,166, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Hybrid distributed unit cellular network architecture" was invented by Daniel Steeves (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various hybrid cellular network arrangements are presented herein. Multiple light base stations may be present, in each light base station of the plurality of light base stations, a radio unit and an antenna may be present, but not a distributed unit. A local data center can be present, which can include a distributed unit host server system. This system can be communicatively connected with each light base station of the pl...