ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,671, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to VeloCloud Networks LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Split control plane for private mobile network" was invented by Anand Srinivas (San Francisco), Xiao H. Gao (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Sameer Naik (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for implementing a software-defined private mobile network (SD-PMN) for an entity. At a physical location of the entity, the method deploys a first set of control plane components for the SD-PMN, the first set of control plane components including a security gateway, a user-plane function (UPF), an AMF (access and mobility ma...