US Patent Issued to Apple on April 29 for "Mutual anchoring and traffic distribution in a converged RAN integrating NR and Wi-Fi access" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,639, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Mutual anchoring and traffic distribution in a converged RAN integrating NR and Wi-Fi access" was invented by Binita Gupta (Cupertino, Calif.), Qian Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Jing Zhu (Cupertino, Calif.), Sangeetha L Bangolae (Cupertino, Calif.), Youn Hyoung Heo (Cupertino, Calif.), Puneet Jain (Cupertino, Calif.), Necati Canpolat (Cupertino, Calif.), Carlos Cordeiro (Cupertino, Calif.) and Alexander Sirotkin (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A next generation NodeB (gNB) implements a radio access network (RAN) convergence functionality for new rad...