ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,090, issued on July 29, was assigned to DISH WIRELESS LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Private network" was invented by Stephen Bye (Littleton, Colo.) and Montgomery Groff (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method performed by a first Access Point (AP) device of a private network that communicates with a fifth-generation New Radio (5G NR) cellular telecommunication radio access network (RAN). The method includes transmitting one or more first messages using a first licensed frequency band; receiving one or more second messages using the first licensed frequency band; receiving data for a user equipment device; determining ...