US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 7 for "Son function for dynamically configured RU in multi-protocol RAN" (Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,314, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Son function for dynamically configured RU in multi-protocol RAN" was invented by Fred J. Anderson (Lakeville, Ohio), Shailender Potharaju (Fremont, Calif.), Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.) and Clark Carty (Brunswick, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and computer-readable media for switching a dynamic radio of a single RU between Radio Access Technology (RAT) protocols based on a Software-Defined RAN intelligent controller (SD-RIC). The SD-RIC efficiently assigning RAN resources by converting a radio access point to either 5...