US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Automated detection and mitigation of intra- and interdomain conflicts in open radio access networks" (American, German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,972, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated detection and mitigation of intra- and interdomain conflicts in open radio access networks" was invented by Maja Curic (Munich), Sagar Tayal (Ambala, India) and David Jason Hunt (Kirkwood, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for addressing conflicts in a radio access network (RAN) includes generating, by a non-Real-Time RAN Intelligent Controller (non-RT RIC), a policy for a near-Real-Time RAN Intelligent Controller (near-RT RIC) by analyzing an activity log of several xApps, which are being executed b...