ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,168, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for assigning resources to networks" was invented by Nina Shikaloff (San Rafael, Calif.), Ritu Lakhotia (Bengaluru, India), Loren Erik Anderson (Seattle), Florine Segers (San Francisco), V. S. Srujana Oruganti (Bengaluru, India), Abhishek Kalai Raghavendra (Bangalore, India), Dinesh Badagayedapadavu Srinivas (Bengaluru, India), Madhura Bhat Hathoklu (Bengaluru, India) and Apurva Bharatkumar Shah (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer systems and computer-implemented methods are configured to assign limite...