US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 19 for "Switch-based workload distribution for virtualized RANs" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,432, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Switch-based workload distribution for virtualized RANs" was invented by Daehyeok Kim (Redmond, Wash.), Ilias Marinos (Redmond, Wash.), Anuj Kalia (Newcastle, Wash.) and Manikanta Kotaru (Kenmore, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to allocating workloads to vRANs via programmable switches at far-edge cloud datacenters. Traditionally, traffic allocation is handled by dedicated servers running load-balancing software. However, rerouting RAN traffic to such servers increases both energy and capital co...