ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,249, issued on July 8, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"User plane function (UPF) load balancing based on network data analytics to predict load of user equipment" was invented by Mehdi Alasti (Reston, Va.), Kazi Bashir (Lewisville, Texas), Ash Khamas (Goffstown, N.M.), Ashish Bansal (Frisco, Texas) and Siddhartha Chenumolu (Broadlands, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed towards systems and methods for user plane function (UPF) and network slice load balancing within a 5G network. Example embodiments include systems and methods for load balancing based on current UPF load and thresholds t...