ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,188, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Multi-mode radio unit" was invented by Fred Anderson (Lakeville, Ohio), Indermeet Singh Ghandi (San Jose, Calif.), Shailender Photharaju (Fremont, Calif.) and Clark Carty (Brunswick, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-mode radio unit, and more specifically providing a multi-mode radio unit having a 7.2 split mode and a full gNodeB (gNB) mode may be provided. A 7.2 split mode may be executed at a Multi-Mode Radio Unit (MMRU). Next a metric associated with a front-haul link between the MMRU and a Distributed Unit (DU) may be monitored. The metric may be compared t...