ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,980, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to JOHN MEZZALINGUA ASSOCIATES LLC (Liverpool, N.Y.).

"System and method for creating and managing private subnetworks of LTE base stations" was invented by Jeffrey Michael Courington (Chester, Va.), Vishal Agrawal (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Sasi Eswaravaka (Round Lake, Ill.), Massimo Notargiacomo (Castel Bolognese, Italy), Stephen Turner (Mechanicsville, Va.) and Patrick William Henkle (Homer Glen, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system and methods for creating and maintaining a virtual subnetwork of telecommunication base stations within a wider telecommunication network. In an LTE...