ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,967, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Zero touch provisioning orchestration of open ran (O-RAN) components" was invented by Zeev Render (Ashburn, Va.), Valois Gonzalez (Littleton, Colo.), Arnold Agcaoili (Littleton, Colo.), Sumukha Katta Prasanna Kumar (Littleton, Colo.) and Vassilka Kirova (Nutley, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, orchestration of zero touch provisioning (ZTP) in a cloud based 5G system in provided. In some embodiments, a ZTP orchestrator (ZTPO) receives a request to perform zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) associated with deployment/configuration of a c...