ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,621, issued on June 10, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"User plane function (UPF) load balancing based on special considerations for low latency traffic" was invented by Mehdi Alasti (Reston, Va.), Kazi Bashir (Lewisville, Texas), Ash Khamas (Goffstown, N.H.), 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 embodiments are directed toward 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 U...