US Patent Issued to DISH WIRELESS on Dec. 23 for "Sleeping cell detection in an open radio access network" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,096, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DISH WIRELESS LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Sleeping cell detection in an open radio access network" was invented by Karupaiah Rajendran (Sachse, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for cell sleep state detection and recovery are provided. In the method and apparatus, an O-RAN network entity evaluates one or more resource utilization criteria indicative of whether a cell is in a sleep state to determine whether the one or more resource utilization criteria are met. The one or more resource utilization criteria are selected from a PUCCH criterion, a throughput criterion, a PRB...