ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,251, issued on March 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Sharing of compute resources between the virtualized radio access network (vRAN) and other workloads" was invented by Xenofon Foukas (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Bozidar Radunovic (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for sharing compute resources. The systems and methods may include identifying a plurality of workloads to complete by a deadline. The systems and methods may include generating a performance prediction for each workload of the plurality of workloads. ...