ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,457, issued on March 4, was assigned to DISH WIRELESS LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Real-time inventory for cloud network resources" was invented by Ali Shahwaiz (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cellular network having radio access network (RAN) nodes where each RAN node includes (i) a central unit (CU) that resides on a public cloud of the cellular network, (ii) a distributed unit (DU) that resides on a private cloud of the cellular network such that the DU is in communication with the CU on the public cloud of the cellular network, and (iii) a radio unit (RU) under control of the DU. The cellular network also has netwo...