ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,486, issued on May 6, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Network configuration method and system" was invented by Shubham Deshmukh (Madhya Pradesh, India), Ravi Manaware (Madhya Pradesh, India), Jayveer Prajapati (Madhya Pradesh, India) and Shubham Rathore (Madhya Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving a network configuration request from a site manager, the network configuration request including location information of a site of the network, identifying a geographic domain that includes the network site based on the location information, identifying a server cluster...