ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,304, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Architecture and signaling to enhance uplink processing in split radio access network (RAN) deployments" was invented by Salam Akoum (Austin, Texas), Iyad Alfalujah (Bedminster, N.J.) and Milap Majmundar (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes receiving, by a processing system, an uplink signal at a radio unit (RU) communicating over a fronthaul interface with a distributed unit (DU) of a communication network; receiving a demodulated reference signal (DMRS) confi...