US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 27 for "Calculating and exposing network capacity and congestion to applications" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,109, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Calculating and exposing network capacity and congestion to applications" was invented by Manikanta Kotaru (Kenmore, Wash.), Paramvir Bahl (Bellevue, Wash.) and Arjun Varman Balasingam (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are examples for calculating and exposing network capacity and congestion to applications. A network entity such as a radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller (RIC) or virtual base station component receives measurements of a signal quality for a plurality of user devices connected to a RAN. Th...