ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,068, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.) and DISH Network Technologies India Private Ltd. (Bengaluru, India).

"Zero touch provisioning of advanced open RAN (O-RAN) architecture" was invented by Chris Gu (San Jose, Calif.), Orlando Cuavas (Littleton, Colo.) and Prakash Srinivasan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, zero touch provisioning (ZTP) in a cloud based 5G system are provided. In some embodiments, the ZTP includes receiving a request to perform ZTP on the component in the 5G system; generating a ZTP request based on the request; obtaining a ZTP payload accord...