ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,578, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for operating radio access networks with high service availability" was invented by Frank Tao Yu (Broadlands, Va.) and Farhad Bassirat (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of operating a Radio Access Network (RAN) including a Radio Unit (RU), a first Distributed Unit (DU), a second DU that functions as a dynamic standby DU, and a network management device. After the RU transmits data to the first DU using a configuration parameter set to an address of the first DU, the RU detects an outage of the first ...